Qa Engineer 1 - Remote Us

Public Partnerships LLC supports individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses and aging adults, to remain in their homes and communities and “self” direct their own long-term home care. Our role as the nation’s largest and most experienced Financial Management Service provider is to assist those eligible Medicaid recipients to choose and pay for their own support workers and services within their state-approved personalized budget. We are appointed by states and managed healthcare organizations to better serve more of their residents and members requiring long-term care and ensure the efficient use of taxpayer funded services.

Our culture attracts and rewards people who are results-oriented and strive to exceed customer expectations. We desire motivated candidates who are excited to join our fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and who want to make a difference in helping transform the lives of the consumers we serve. (learn more at www.publicpartnerships.com )

Duties & Responsibilities

• Follows and advocates for quality-centered engineering best practices.
• Creates detailed test cases and performs manual testing at different phases and times.
• Reports and tracks defects using defect management system.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Investigates and reproduces customer-reported issues to help determine root cause.
• Provides validation for requirements, designs, and new software components.
• Contributes to special quality-related initiatives to improve process, investigates, and qualifies tools, develops test frameworks or techniques as needed.
• Performs system-level integration and regression testing to ensure product readiness.
• Tracks status and communicate progress effectively to project management.
• Supports planning and estimating tasks as part of an agile delivery team.

Required Skills

• Strong communication and influencing skills, and professional business demeanor.
• Demonstrated understanding of the software product development life cycle.
• Ability to work collaboratively, and even lead testing initiatives.
• Iterative testing experience (Agile/Scrum experience a plus)
• Exposure to load and performance testing
• Strong Microsoft Office applications skills (preferably with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access)
• Exposure to debugging skills: such as SQL for analysis and debugging
• Experience creating detailed test case and following testing best practices.
• Adept and passionate for learning the latest testing technologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Highly motivated, able to learn quickly, and accountable for committed results.
• Methodical & inquisitive mind-set for testing beyond the obvious and uncovering evasive bugs.
• Experience with a ticketing system, such as ADO (Microsoft Azure DevOps) or Jira.
• Exposure with modern web technologies/frameworks

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

BS degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent field

1-3 years of formal quality assurance experience

Certification

Working Conditions:

Remote or office setting

Compensation & Benefits

401k Retirement Plan

Medical, Dental and Vision insurance on first day of employment

Generous Paid Time Off

Tuition & Continuing Education Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program and more!

The base pay for this role is between $85,000 to $90,000; base pay may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and location. Certain positions may also be eligible for a performance-based incentive as part of total compensation.

Public Partnerships is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to celebrating diversity and intentionally creating a culture of inclusion. We believe that we work best when our employees feel empowered and accepted, and that starts by honoring each of our unique life experiences. At PPL, all aspects of employment regarding recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoff, company-sponsored training, education, and social and recreational programs are based on merit, business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, gender identity and/or expression, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, citizenship status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. PPL will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

PPL does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, gender identity and/or expression, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, citizenship status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.