Quality Business Analyst (Remote Opportunity)

Summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to support testing and software quality activities for a Department of Veterans Affairs initiative. The role analyzes requirements, develops and executes functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance tests, validates PII and SSN protection measures, tracks defects, and collaborates with project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs to identify testing needs
• Develop detailed test cases, test scripts, scenarios, and test data supporting project requirements
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and User Acceptance Testing across impacted VistA packages
• Validate removal or replacement of SSN data within workflows, user interfaces, reports, audit records, and related processes
• Verify appropriate implementation of enterprise identifiers and expected application behavior
• Perform manual and, where applicable, automated testing
• Clearly document software defects, unexpected behavior, and test failures
• Track defects through investigation, correction, retesting, and closure
• Collaborate with developers and Business Analysts to reproduce issues and validate resolutions
• Participate in defect triage and provide information regarding defect severity, impact, and reproducibility
• Validate that implemented functionality meets documented business, technical, privacy, and security requirements
• Support testing associated with PII/PHI protection and applicable NIST control requirements
• Maintain traceability between project requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and results
• Identify gaps in test coverage and recommend improvements to QA processes
• Participate in Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
• Collaborate with the QA Lead, developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners throughout the software development lifecycle
• Communicate testing progress, defects, risks, and impediments to the QA Lead and project team

Skills

• • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• • 2+ years of experience in software quality assurance or software testing
• • Experience developing and executing software test cases and test scripts
• • Experience documenting and tracking software defects
• • Experience performing functional and regression testing within enterprise software environments
• • Experience collaborating with developers and Business Analysts throughout the software development lifecycle
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including required fingerprinting, when required for the position
• • Experience testing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or other Federal healthcare applications
• • Experience testing VistA applications or familiarity with MUMPS-based systems
• • Familiarity with ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, VistA Audit Solutions, or related VistA packages
• • Knowledge of PII/PHI handling requirements, HIPAA, NIST security controls, or VA privacy requirements
• • Experience with automated testing tools or techniques
• • Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• • 2+ years of experience in software quality assurance or software testing
• • Experience developing and executing software test cases and test scripts
• • Experience documenting and tracking software defects
• • Experience performing functional and regression testing within enterprise software environments
• • Experience collaborating with developers and Business Analysts throughout the software development lifecycle
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including required fingerprinting, when required for the position

Nice to Haves

• • Experience testing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or other Federal healthcare applications
• • Experience testing VistA applications or familiarity with MUMPS-based systems
• • Familiarity with ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, VistA Audit Solutions, or related VistA packages
• • Knowledge of PII/PHI handling requirements, HIPAA, NIST security controls, or VA privacy requirements
• • Experience with automated testing tools or techniques
• • Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401k with Matching
• Corporate Laptop
• PTO + Federal Holidays
• Training opportunities
• Remote opportunity