Senior QA Analytical Consultant

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Position Summary/Mission
The Software QA Engineer is responsible for the technical system validation and verification of functionality for reporting/analytics and ETL applications. This position performs functional, performance and automated testing of software changes to ensure quality and stability before changes are deployed to production systems.

• Responsible for the overall test architecture, strategy, standards, and procedures for assigned area(s).
• Acts as technical or business contributor, to support the test design process and deliverables, using Requirement, architecture, data modeling, design, and Use Case artifacts as input.
• Coordinate and acts as technical contributor to support translation of architectural and design changes to impacted areas.
• Demonstrates understanding of the environment and infrastructure configuration in developing or reviewing the test design/test planning.
• Provides risk and opportunity assessments on a project level, including end to end impact of changes.
• Identifies automation and process improvement opportunities and implements on future project/release testing.
• Identifies the need, valuates, and implements tools that support the testing process.
• Recommends and implements new testing practices and procedures that are consistent with industry standards and practices.
• Keeps abreast of technical changes and advancements in the testing field.
• Coordinates the testing and implementation within a given area or across multiple areas.
• Performs complex testing, according to detailed plans to ensure high-quality systems.
• Provide testing estimates on assigned tasks and maintains those estimates using the proper QA tools.
• Responsible for defining, developing, maintaining, executing, and validating test architecture and scripts.
• Responsible for escalating project and release items (issues, concerns, defects) to the Manager and for communicating own issues, developing options to mitigate negative impacts to release schedule; assists the manager and team in understanding impacts of issues in other areas or own area of testing.
• Proactively escalates issues, problems, status to Manager / scrum master and actively participates in meetings to address, research options, and ensure success and timely resolution.
• Timely and accurate reporting status, defect information and metrics to facilitate accurate/timely reporting at a release level.
• Provides expertise on applications and technologies to support project teams.
• Effectively communicates the end-to-end testing results to the teams
• Utilize accepted methodology & tools in a disciplined manner, which may include execution of key technical reviews at project gates/milestones.
• Supervision Received: Receives general direction, primarily working independently.
• Supervision Exercised: Regularly provides guidance and training to less experienced team members. No direct management responsibility, but is highly accountable for the effectiveness, quality, and timelines of test design decisions and how readily the designs can be implemented.

Background/Experience Desired

• 8+ years software project life cycle experience with concentration in quality assurance.
• 8+ years' experience in technology support or application program development.
• Extensive experience within the testing life cycle and defect life cycle
• Experience coordinating/managing the application testing process.
• Extensive experience on testing the reporting applications/analytics and ETL applications.
• 5+ years hands on experience on QA Automation tools (Selenium, Cucumber and JMETER) and coding experience in Java/Java Script
• Proficient in automation framework and scripts. Create proof of concepts on advanced technologies and tools (manual and automated tools)
• 5+ years hands on experience on JIRA
• 5+ years hands on experience on test management tools (Xray, HP Quality Center)
• 5+ years hands on experience on ETL testing
• Extensively created and executed SQL queries in Oracle or SQL server to view successful transactions of data and to validate/compare data at the back end
• 5+ years' experience on agile methodology
• Requires significant knowledge across multiple areas and applications, has a significant healthcare business knowledge and impact to numerous applications.

Education And Certification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Certification of Quality Assurance and Testing is preferred.

Anticipated Weekly Hours
40

Time Type
Full time

Pay Range
The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is
$83, $222,480.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.

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Great Benefits For Great People
We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/05/2025

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