[Remote] Test Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Highmark Health is seeking a Test Engineer to join their agile scrum team. The role involves writing, executing, and analyzing software tests to ensure high-quality applications that meet product vision and standards.

Responsibilities

• Work with software engineers, product analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements surrounding new or enhanced features. Responsible for writing test case documents, test plan documents, and test results that adheres to SOC2 standards set forth by Principal Analysts. Performs peer reviews of testing artifacts. Acquires, manipulates or creates all necessary test data needed for software quality assurance. Mentors junior Test Engineers in this capacity
• Responsible for idea generation, exploring and suggesting business rules that would apply to achieve the required product features. And contributing to an evolving and updated product backlog. Attend release activities as needed in order to ensure successful, high-quality product updates. Coordinate release night activities for the department
• Responsible for participating in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints in the development through final execution of software applications/programs. Communicates any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master in a timely manner. Helps in story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation). Creates Tasks for their stories in RTC or Jira, and updates status and assignment accordingly. Monitors work against production schedule and provide progress updates and report any issues or impediments to senior analyst/principals on a regular basis. Mentors junior Test Engineers in this capacity
• Responsible for software development and execution of test automation code as a part of on-going regression testing standards. Test engineers will work with a variety of QA Automation technologies including; Java programming, Selenium, Appium and our cloud build and delivery processes
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)
• Bachelor's Degree Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or closely related field
• 3 years of writing test artifacts that adheres to SOC2 standards
• 1 year of writing test cases according to standard templates, simply, clearly, and concisely
• 1 year of writing test plans according to standard templates, defining test strategy and assumptions
• 1 year of test case and test plan peer review
• Master's Degree in Information Systems, Business Management or Healthcare Administration
• 5 years of developing test automation software according to coding and industry best practices
• 3 years participating in code reviews and CICD process improvement
• 1 year of mentoring junior Test Engineers at some levels of job responsibility

Benefits

• Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations.
• The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.
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