QA & Testing Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

QA & Testing Associate Advisor     Position Overview     The QA & Testing Associate Advisor is responsible for implementing QA practices and process across the PBM organization. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and adhering to Safe agile practices. The candidate will work with the team in designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy. The QA will also work closely with Software Developers and other testers in small scrum teams to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner. Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, comparing and manipulating data; creating, maintaining and executing test plans and test cases; estimating test efforts; analyzing and communicating test results; defect tracking and participating in day-to-day testing activities. The candidate will also support ensuring regression test scripts are current and are in the appropriate format for automation.       This role provides counsel and advice across several stakeholders on Q&A matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. This role may provide thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines and will acts as a lead within the team in mentoring junior team members.      Responsibilities     • Works with business partners and IT staff to establish and implement a consistent testing methodology   • Identify and prepare complex test data to support the test cases defined by the team   • Supports senior team members and may design a comprehensive testing strategy and build test suites   • Develop and maintain regression test beds and schedule test cycles   • Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-usable test sets   • Ensure regression scripts are in appropriate format for automation   • Test execution-manual and automated   • Perform UAT of functional requirements   • Utilize appropriate testing tools   • Assist in the coordination of User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End to End (E2E) testing   • Validate and report progress, risks, issues and defects to agile team   • Communicates with business partners and agile team members throughout the project life cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective systems and deliverables   • Acts as a support during PI Planning, retrospective and daily stand-up meetings and business demonstrations   • Support all post implementation activities, such as post implementation testing and lessons learned analysis   • Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge and methodologies to the team       Qualifications     Required Skills:   • Proficiency with most of the following technologies- test automation, selenium, sauce labs, Java, Selenium, Test NG, Cucumber, Strong SQL      • Testing and triaging of defects and issues.   • Knowledge of defect tracking / task tools such as Jira and Confluence.   • Knowledge of build automation and deployment tools such as Jenkins as well as source code repository tools such as Git.    • Good understanding of multiple test automation frameworks    • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.    • Strong influencing/negotiation skills.    • Strong interpersonal/relationship skills.    • Strong time and project management skills.    • Familiarity with agile methodology including SCRUM team leadership.     • Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.  Required Experience & Education:  • 8-11 years of experience • Experience with an onshore/offshore model.  • Proven experience with testing large-scale enterprise application