Quality Assurance Analysts - Consultants

Quality Assurance Analyst – Consultant (Advanced) Project Scope

The Quality Assurance Analyst – Consultant will support the client projects in collaboration with the client Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO is responsible for staffing all the client projects and for establishing, enforcing, and monitoring IT governance, standards, and best practices followed by all enterprise project teams.

Team Size: 15+

Dress Code: Business casual to casual; occasional formal attire

Primary

Work Location:

1628 Browning Road, Columbia, SC 29210

Number of Openings: 1

Start Date: January 10, 2026

Duration: 12 months

Sector: Public Sector / Government

The Quality Assurance Analyst – Consultant is responsible for testing technical solutions to identify, isolate, and resolve defects and performance issues. This role supports quality assurance activities throughout the system development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Develop comprehensive test plans, quality assurance strategies, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes
• Translate business requirements, policy documentation, and technical designs into detailed test cases and test scenarios
• Maintain end‑to‑end SDLC traceability between requirements, designs, test cases, and system components
• Perform functional, regression, usability, and negative testing
• Test software applications for reliability, stability, and performance
• Design, execute, and support automated testing scripts, including oversight of test deployments
• Participate in defect identification, triage, retesting, and resolution processes
• Prepare and maintain quality assurance documentation, metrics, and test reports
• Ensure compliance with established software testing governance, standards, and best practices; recommend process improvements as appropriate
• Conduct reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections in alignment with governance requirements
• Communicate test results, open issues, and identified gaps to development and project teams through regular status reporting

• Minimum of 5 years of experience translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios
• Minimum of 5 years of experience building and executing test cases within test management systems
• Minimum of 3 years of in‑depth knowledge of healthcare operations and business processes, preferably Medicaid
• Minimum of 3 years of hands‑on experience using formal test design tools

• 5+ years of experience supporting large enterprise or e‑business systems
• 3+ years of experience using manual or automated testing tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Atlassian JIRA, and Confluence
• 3+ years of experience working within a structured SDLC (Waterfall) and Agile delivery environments

Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, healthcare, or related field

Relevant professional experience may be substituted for formal education

No certifications required

Technical and/or Project Management certifications from recognized organizations are preferred

Prior experience with ICD‑10 and Medicaid systems is highly desirable

• Successful completion of State‑mandated background checks, including:
• Criminal background check
• Credit check
• E‑Verify employment eligibility verification