Professional, Jr. Quality Engineer

Overview

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Health Care. At MVP Health Care, we're on a mission to create a healthier future for everyone. That means embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by people who are curious, humble, and committed to making a difference—every interaction, every day. We've been putting people first for over 40 years, offering high-quality health plans across New York and Vermont and partnering with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care.

As a not-for-profit, we invest in what matters most: our customers, our communities, and our team.

What's In It For You

• Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
• A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
• An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace.

You'll contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by bringing curiosity to spark innovation, humility to collaborate as a team, and a deep commitment to being the difference for our customers. Your role will reflect our shared goal of enhancing health care delivery and building healthier, more vibrant communities.

The Junior Quality Engineer is a critical part of this transformation. As a member of a Scrum team, the Junior Quality Engineer is primarily responsible for ensuring that quality products are delivered to the organization. The candidate will work with a cross-functional team to understand business requirements and break them into user stories, develop test plans, test cases and execute test scenarios to ensure we are delivering high quality code.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, self-starter who is passionate about quality assurance and can work effectively in an agile environment to ensure commitments are met. The engineer also serves as a role model on the Scrum team to promote quality, innovative, and scalable solutions.

The role includes but is not limited to the following:

• Working with Quality Assurance leaders and team leads to implement process improvement initiatives that drive improved quality and accuracy while promoting industry best practices. Leverage Dev Ops concepts to promote good quality and automation practices
• Follow best practices and test strategies utilizing industry standard testing techniques and methodologies. Execute master test plans for large scale projects
• Participate in Agile defect management process. Ensure quality solutions are delivered to the business by executing a strategic and well-planned test approach. Create detailed, comprehensive, well-structured test cases that are automatable. Create system or business process flow diagrams
• Utilize structured query language (SQL) for data mining and data seeding purposes. Identify critical path regression scenarios. Conduct root cause analysis and participate in debugging activities
• Ensure proper test coverage by utilizing a traceability matrix. Participates in release/sprint planning activities and daily stand-up meetings. Participates in user story creation, backlog refinement scrum ceremonies ensuring appropriate test acceptance criteria, test cases, and test plans are in place
• Provide story points estimates for quality deliverable portion of a user story
• Provide estimates for quality assurance tasks being performed for user stories. Accountable for regular status updates to all assigned sprint tasks during daily stand-up meetings

Technologies

One or more of the following preferred:
Python, SQL, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS

Qualifications

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field/relevant work experience required.

• 1 year experience working in an agile environment. Experience in Dev Ops concepts preferred. Ability to problem solve and implement solutions.
• Command of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Understanding of testing methodologies and techniques Experience with test automation and tools
• Highly self-motivated and directed with the ability and dedication to meeting aggressive deadlines while ensuring quality delivery. Experience with test case design, test scripts, test execution and defect management preferred. Familiarity with structured query language (SQL), Python or other coding language.
• Ability to understand and embrace our SDLC, business processes, and strategy. Understanding of Agile Development Methodology (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members and customers

Pay Transparency

MVP Health Care is committed to providing competitive employee compensation and benefits packages. The base pay range provided for this role reflects our…