Quality Assurance Consultant

Job Overview Title: QA Consultant Location: Baltimore, MD (On-site) Duration: 6+ months Interview Process: Phone then Webex / Onsite Remote Option: No Responsibilities Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project including planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily stand‑ups, demonstrating precision and accuracy in estimating and subsequently delivering within sprints. Design test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy. Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases. Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary, and provide test coverage analysis based on automation results. Lead the team through preparing and estimation sessions to define acceptance criteria, ensuring that the team's acceptance criteria for stories and tasks is appropriate and being met universally. Collaborate with the development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing automation efforts. Ensure full functional testing of new features added each sprint, as well as full regression testing for all previously implemented functionality in each sprint. Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects and environments used. Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics, providing weekly and monthly status to management. Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non‑technical audiences, and interface with the customer on a daily basis. Become knowledgeable on HIPAA policies and procedures for the program and ensure awareness of HIPAA breach process, understanding your role in HIPAA compliance and executing it effectively. Basic Qualifications Minimum 14 years of relevant work experience as a Test Automation Engineer, employing agile best practices. 8 years of experience developing and maintaining automated testing frameworks and infrastructure using object‑oriented design. 3 years of experience using Selenium/Cucumber to develop and manage automated test scripts. 5 years of experience using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automated test scripts. 8 years of experience developing test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and test data. 8 years of experience investigating and debugging test failures, updating tests, or reporting bugs as necessary. 5 years of experience using SQL and relational databases (Oracle, DB2). Experience capturing and reusing automated unit test cases, test stubs, and drivers, and other development test objects. Experience integrating project testing with continuous‑integration processes. Preferred Qualifications Experience using risk‑driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for dynamic testing. Experience using VersionOne and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Proficiency in XML and object‑oriented programming. Proficiency in MS Office, MS Visio, and SharePoint. Excellent team‑building skills, including cross‑functional team building. Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) disability experience is a plus. Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #J-18808-Ljbffr