Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

at  San Francisco Health Plan

The Senior QA Analyst reviews software specifications and business requirements with software developers/business analysts and project managers in order to create test plans, cases and scripts to assure that applications are appropriately tested before they are implemented in the production environment. The Sr. QA Analyst will also work with the development team to assess requirements and provide QA testing estimates.
SFHP is proud to offer a hybrid work environment. As such, this position will be required to be onsite, in office a minimum of 4 days per month.
Salary range: $126,000 - $140,000

• Develop test plans and test cases for projects as assigned.
• Design and execute test suites. Testing involves application (SIT & regression), functional, system, network, data and assist in user acceptance testing.
• Work with the Application Management team to develop, maintain and execute quality assurance testing procedures and methodology.
• Works closely with Development, QA and Business groups to understand the data needs for the creation of reusable data sets to support testing (Unit, functional, integration, UAT, regression, performance, etc.)
• Perform backend testing using SQL queries to verify database transactions.
• Setup database and test installation scripts to verify that database requirements are met (besides confirming that certain database objects, stored procedures, tables, views etc. are created)
• Identify and track defects while effectively coordinating efforts with developers or responsible parties to ensure defect resolution. Provide analysis and data for use in debugging.
• Support Project Managers and Business Systems Analysts with SIT related issues before releasing to end users for UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Participate in planning and execution of tasks related to the evaluation of new testing methodologies and tools (system upgrades, Third-Party solutions, and integration with other Enterprise Systems).
• Use judgment and creativity to design testing approach to meet requirements/specifications as provided by business analysts and software development managers.
• Maintain current industry knowledge of testing concepts, best practices and procedures.
• Follow internal procedures for change management, incident management, and escalation.
• Develop test plans to check application infrastructure and application performance. Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement to developers, PM/BSAs, SFHP management and other ITS team members.
• Develop and maintain test strategies and coordinate plan with all testers.
• Automate test procedures to increase efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Utilize systems and tools that improve automation and testing processes.