Business Subject Matter Expert

Job Details

Title:

Business Subject Matter Expert

Location:

Salem, OR (Remote)

Duration: 7 Months

Interview:
Webcam Interview

The Client seeks an experienced UAT Business Subject Matter Expert Tester to support the SB 972 Transition Project as Oregon moves from an SBM FP to a full State Based Marketplace (SBM). Contractor's Key Person shall work closely with Marketplace business partners, Get Insured, Medicaid/ONE system teams, and technical teams to ensure the new marketplace platform meets business needs, supports compliance, and delivers accurate, high quality functionality.

Contractor's Key person shall provide advanced user acceptance testing support for the development and implementation of Oregon's new State Based Marketplace (SBM). Contractor's Key Person shall ensure that eligibility, enrollment, and Marketplace operations systems meet business needs, align with policy, and function correctly for consumers, partners, and programs.

Contractor's Key Person shall collaborate closely with Marketplace business partners, product staff, technical teams, the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace's vendor Get Insured, and Oregon's Medicaid division—specifically the teams supporting the ONE eligibility system to design, execute, and validate UAT activities in both agile and traditional delivery environments. Contractor's Key Person shall serve as a subject matter expert in test design, test execution, defect analysis, and continuous improvement of testing processes.

• Review and analyze project requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Maintain and update the requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Create, update, and maintain UAT test cases, scenarios, test data, and test suites.
• Contribute to UAT test plans outlining testing scope, approach, environments, schedule, resources, and risks.
• Execute manual UAT test cases and document detailed results, including evidence, discrepancies, and validation outcomes.
• Participate in test case review sessions and identify automation candidates for collaboration with automation engineers.
• Support regression testing and verify defect fixes to ensure system stability.
• Support exploratory testing, targeted bug hunts, and adhoc validation activities.
• Log defects with clear reproduction steps, supporting documentation, and expected behavior; retest defects and confirm resolution. Using JIRA as provided by GI for logging defects.
• Perform or support integration testing across systems, APIs, services, and interfaces affecting Marketplace operations.
• Contribute to or support load, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Prepare, request, or curate test data required for UAT cycles.
• Validate UAT readiness including requirements, environments, tools, and data availability.
• Participate in defect triage, contributing to assessments of priority, severity, and business impact.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and support to business SMEs participating in UAT.
• Develop and maintain UAT best practices, documentation, templates, and training materials.
• Provide daily/weekly test metrics, summaries, and progress updates to program leadership.
• Fully participate in Scrum ceremonies (If applicable) including planning, refinement, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to release readiness assessments and go/nogo recommendations.
• Learn and apply basic automation concepts and collaborate with automation engineers where applicable.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for UAT processes, tools, and crossteam collaboration.
• Serve as a Business SME Tester responsible for validating system behavior from an endtoend business perspective.
• Develop user acceptance test cases,
• Execute testing
• Ensure that system outputs align with Marketplace policy, operational workflows, and federal and state regulations.

• Strong understanding of UAT methodologies, SDLC, and Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Ability to analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective test cases.
• Experience designing and executing complex test scenarios.
• Proficiency using test management and defect tracking tools (Azure Dev Ops, Jira, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to prioritize work, manage time effectively, and operate with limited supervision.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG), security testing…