Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Position Description

• Develop and drive QA tests, formulate testing strategy and test plans, and implement them across Pareto’s product offerings
• Contribute to test automation in order to report regressions, streamline QA timelines, and validate complex tests for a distributed system
• Collaborate on improving test coverage, release velocity, and production health
• Work closely with engineering to understand new functionality changes and identify best ways to validate them
• Work with big data
• Help verify new product features and ensure the product is delivered with the highest quality
• Be a strong advocate of quality and usability with a focus towards the end user
• Find, troubleshoot, and track bugs to resolution
• Ensure the security, confidentiality, and integrity of client information for yourself and team
• Other responsibilities as determined based on business needs

Basic Qualifications

BA or BS preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or IT related field

Preferred Skills

Strong knowledge of back-end and UI testing

Able to create re-usable test cases and be able to understand Python, PySpark & SQL

Experienced at automated testing

QA certification preferred

Previous quality assurance, testing and/or software engineering experience

Knowledge of software development life cycle

Experience with Zephyr Test Management Tool

AWS Experience is a plus

Health Care Domain Knowledge is required

Professional Skill Requirements

• Complex Problem Solving - Ability to identify and solve problems by reviewing related information, evaluating options and implementing solutions
• Critical Thinking - Ability to use logic and reason to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
• Deductive Reasoning – Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
• Inductive Reasoning – Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated information or events)
• Quantitative and Analytical Skills - Ability to apply quantitative and statistical analysis techniques to unstructured problems
• Strong Communication Skills – Ability to clearly and concisely communicate information and ideas orally and in writing
• Quality Assurance – Ability to perform systematic self-review to ensure work product is accurate and satisfies its intended purpose
• Oversight Experience – Ability to oversee a team of employees

ATTRIBUTES

• Positive, flexible and self-motivated attitude
• Team player who is comfortable working with clients and project teams
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and follow up
• Ability to set priorities and work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Comfortable in an entrepreneurial environment
• Enthusiasm to continue learning, challenge and enhance existing strategic solutions is required

Successful candidate must be willing and able to travel, when necessary. Estimated travel is approximately less than 10% of the time.

Company Description

Pareto Intelligence is an analytics solution company focused on helping providers and health plans deliver improved financial and medical cost outcomes. Pareto IntelligenceTM was designed to help our health plan clients solve critical financial and business challenges in a post PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) world.

Please visit the Pareto IntelligenceTM careers website (http://paretointelligence.com/Careers) for more information on Pareto IntelligenceTM, our services and opportunities with our firm. You can also email your resume to careers@paretointel.com.