Full Description

Job Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Columbia, SC Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 days remote).

Position Type: C2C/W2

Years of Experience: 08+ years

Duration of the Contract: 12 months

Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident. No relocation allowed.

Project Scope

• The Quality Assurance Analyst will support enterprise-level healthcare IT initiatives for a South Carolina state Medicaid agency. The role involves working closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) and cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to IT governance standards, quality processes, and delivery timelines.
• This position is ideal for candidates who thrive in complex, change-driven environments and have strong experience in healthcare systems, particularly Medicaid.

Key Responsibilities

• · Perform functional, system, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to identify and resolve application issues.
• · Develop detailed test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and testing processes based on business and technical requirements.
• · Maintain full SDLC traceability from requirements through test cases and execution.
• · Execute manual and automated testing, including negative and usability testing.
• · Design and support UI testing and regression testing activities.
• · Participate in defect triage, retesting, and issue resolution with development teams.
• · Create and maintain QA documentation, metrics, and status reports.
• · Ensure compliance with established QA governance standards, policies, and best practices.
• · Conduct reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections of deliverables.
• · Communicate test progress, risks, issues, and gaps clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience

• · 5+ years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios
• · 5+ years of experience building and executing test cases within test management systems
• · 3+ years deep knowledge of healthcare operations (Medicaid experience strongly preferred), business processes
• · 3+ years direct hands-on experience with formal test design tools

Preferred Skills

• · 5+ years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
• · 3+ years proficient in use of manual or automated testing tools such as Azure DevOps or Atlassian JIRA and Confluence