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Job Title: Sr Analyst, System Testing II

Position Details:

• (Cloud Senior Test Analyst)
• Contract
• Onsite is Highly Preferred - Will look at Partial and Remote Candidates
• Interviews: Onsite for Local/Partial Candidates - Remote for Non local
• Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Possible overtime, when needed to meet project timeline
• The Team: TPA Cloud Migration - This is an exciting new opportunity at TPA. The new team will be dedicated to migrating application to the CMS AWS Cloud. This structure leverages a wide range of skills and expertise, enabling the team to operate across different functions and projects while working from various locations. It's a flexible and dynamic approach to team organization that supports agility and innovation in a global business environment.

Duties:

• Day To Day: A typical day for a Cloud Senior Test Analyst on the TPA team involves planning and executing test cases for the TPA portal within the CMS Cloud (built on AWS ). The analyst uses TestRail to manage test plans, track execution, and document results, while JIRA is used to log defects and align testing tasks with Agile sprints. They collaborate with developers and business analysts in daily stand-ups, using Confluence to maintain test documentation, user stories, and release notes. The role also includes validating application behavior in cloud environments, supporting compliance testing, and ensuring that all updates meet CMS security and performance standards before deployment. In addition, they complete supportive administrative and lead activities related to cloud testing and collect and analyze data for software process evaluation and continuous improvement. Their work is essential to maintaining the quality, reliability, and compliance of cloud-based healthcare applications.
• Complete supportive administrative and lead activities. Collect and analyze data for software process evaluation and improvements. Integrate them into business processes to address business needs.
• 40% Complete administrative and lead activities to support management such as attending sessions with customers, planning and disbursing projects to team members, completing reports, resource planning, preparing documentation and developing processes.
• 40% Manage projects to ensure the coordination, documentation, reporting and customer communication requirements are being supported. Mentor and provide guidance to testing staff.
• 20% Perform quality checks across various IT functions to ensure quality standards, procedures, and methodologies are being followed. Define and analyze quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results, and test status. Make recommendations to clients on how to improve operational workflows. 

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree. or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree

Required Experience: 9 years of IT experience to include experience developing test plans and/or test matrices

Required:

• Agile Testing and CI/CD Experience
• Cloud hosted application(s) testing experience
• Identify, track, and manage bugs using TestRail, JIRA/Confluence, or ALM.
• Testing Tools (e.g., Selenium Grid, JUnit, TestNG, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, and Postman).
• Strong knowledge of lift-and-shift, re-platforming, or cloud migration testing.
• Design, Develop and execute test strategies, test cases, and automated scripts for cloud-native, containerized, and legacy applications migrated to AWS cloud.
• Lead functional, regression, integration, system, failover, and performance testing across multi-tier AWS Cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of REST/SOAP API testing, SQL, and test automation frameworks.
• Solid understanding of test data stragegy, version control, defect triage, and test metrics reporting.
• Implement automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline)
• AWS Services – EC2, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CodeBuild
• Security and compliance testing (HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST-800)
• 508 / WCAG compliance testing (Burp Suite/OWASP ZAP, WAVE)
• Medicare Experience 

Pay Transparency:

• This is the pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay someone for this position is $35.00/hour - $54.00/hour W-2.
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met).

BlueCross is a strong supporter of our veterans, and many service men and women have joined our ranks. We’ve found dedication, work ethics and job skills that serve well in the military excel in many of our lines of business, and we proudly have veterans filling positions in Human Resources, Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, General Services and more.

Through our government contracts, we also have employees serving at Shaw Air Force Base, the Naval Health Clinic in Charleston, the Naval Hospital in Beaufort and in our hometown of Columbia, S.C., at Ft. Jackson. If you are a full-time employee in the National Guard or Reserves, we will even cover the difference in your pay if you are called to active duty. If you're ready to join a diverse company with secure, community roots and an innovative future, apply for a position now!