QA & Testing Senior Advisors- Hybrid

Cigna Healthcare•Bloomfield, CT

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The job profile for this position is QA & Testing Senior Advisor, which is a Band 4 Contributor Career Track Role with Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. Responsibilities- • Hybrid position which includes leading testing team as well as project level test coordination of more than one portfolio project at a time across multiple applications; • Coordinate test planning to conduct functional and integrated test design and execution for a wide variety of internal projects; • Conduct end-to-end integrated testing and determine requirements analysis and test approach with the delivery and business teams; • Work with both onsite (Scrum Master, Product, QA and Developers) and offshore QA team members in properly defining testable scenarios based on requirements and acceptance criteria; • Help define test data criteria and partner with the data team to obtain the data; • Participate in sprint-level, integration, and regression test planning and execution; • Design and develop scripts to run automated tests to ensure consistency, repeatability, and ability to accelerate delivery; • Determine priorities for test scenarios and creates effective execution plans; • Conduct manual and exploratory testing, defect reporting, and triaging; • Analyze failure patterns and determine corrective actions to eliminate the errors completely; and • Adhere to the organization's quality engineering best practices while helping to drive changes to the company’s testing practices where necessary. • Hybrid Work Schedule. Qualifications- • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; • 5 years of experience in a related occupation; • Scaled Agile SAFe certification required; • Experience working in or with a client who is in the healthcare domain; • Experience creating test plans, test scenarios, and test scripts, and executing the same; • Experience leading Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT); • Experience liaising with clients to understand requirements for multiple applications; • Experience supporting the analysis of business requirements and functional specification documents; • Experience working with the Project Test Management team to work on project testing and coordinating testing for multiple applications; • Experience participating in client calls to provide status updates; • Experience analyzing business requirements, test design, and defect logging and tracking; • Experience supporting test data set up for applications according to requirements; • Experience working on status metrics by monitoring defects and updating management with the daily status; • Experience utilizing Agile Software Development methodologies; • Experience utilizing JIRA and Rally; and • Experience with SQL Server database testing. If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload. About The Cigna Group Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response. The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances. Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
5 years of experience in a related occupation
Scaled Agile SAFe certification required
Experience working in or with a client who is in the healthcare domain
Experience creating test plans, test scenarios, and test scripts, and executing the same
Experience leading Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Experience liaising with clients to understand requirements for multiple applications
Experience supporting the analysis of business requirements and functional specification documents
Experience working with the Project Test Management team to work on project testing and coordinating testing for multiple applications
Experience participating in client calls to provide status updates
Experience analyzing business requirements, test design, and defect logging and tracking
Experience supporting test data set up for applications according to requirements
Experience working on status metrics by monitoring defects and updating management with the daily status
Experience utilizing Agile Software Development methodologies
Experience utilizing JIRA and Rally
Experience with SQL Server database testing
internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload

Responsibilities

Hybrid position which includes leading testing team as well as project level test coordination of more than one portfolio project at a time across multiple applications
Coordinate test planning to conduct functional and integrated test design and execution for a wide variety of internal projects
Conduct end-to-end integrated testing and determine requirements analysis and test approach with the delivery and business teams
Work with both onsite (Scrum Master, Product, QA and Developers) and offshore QA team members in properly defining testable scenarios based on requirements and acceptance criteria
Help define test data criteria and partner with the data team to obtain the data
Participate in sprint-level, integration, and regression test planning and execution
Design and develop scripts to run automated tests to ensure consistency, repeatability, and ability to accelerate delivery
Determine priorities for test scenarios and creates effective execution plans
Conduct manual and exploratory testing, defect reporting, and triaging
Analyze failure patterns and determine corrective actions to eliminate the errors completely
Adhere to the organization's quality engineering best practices while helping to drive changes to the company’s testing practices where necessary