Quality Assurance Consultant

Job Overview

Title:

QA Consultant

Location:

Baltimore, MD (On-site)

Duration: 6+ months

Interview Process:
Phone then Webex / Onsite

Remote Option:
No

• Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project including planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily stand‑ups, demonstrating precision and accuracy in estimating and subsequently delivering within sprints.
• Design test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy.
• Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary, and provide test coverage analysis based on automation results.
• Lead the team through preparing and estimation sessions to define acceptance criteria, ensuring that the team's acceptance criteria for stories and tasks is appropriate and being met universally.
• Collaborate with the development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing automation efforts.
• Ensure full functional testing of new features added each sprint, as well as full regression testing for all previously implemented functionality in each sprint.
• Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects and environments used.
• Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics, providing weekly and monthly status to management.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non‑technical audiences, and interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Become knowledgeable on HIPAA policies and procedures for the program and ensure awareness of HIPAA breach process, understanding your role in HIPAA compliance and executing it effectively.

• Minimum 14 years of relevant work experience as a Test Automation Engineer, employing agile best practices.
• 8 years of experience developing and maintaining automated testing frameworks and infrastructure using object‑oriented design.
• 3 years of experience using Selenium/Cucumber to develop and manage automated test scripts.
• 5 years of experience using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automated test scripts.
• 8 years of experience developing test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and test data.
• 8 years of experience investigating and debugging test failures, updating tests, or reporting bugs as necessary.
• 5 years of experience using SQL and relational databases (Oracle, DB2).
• Experience capturing and reusing automated unit test cases, test stubs, and drivers, and other development test objects.
• Experience integrating project testing with continuous‑integration processes.

• Experience using risk‑driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for dynamic testing.
• Experience using Version One and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Proficiency in XML and object‑oriented programming.
• Proficiency in MS Office, MS Visio, and SharePoint.
• Excellent team‑building skills, including cross‑functional team building.
• Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) disability experience is a plus.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.