Short Description:

DHCF DCAS is looking for a Junior UAT Specialist to work withing their testing team. This is a great opportunity to grow in an enterprise environment.

Complete Description:

This position is housed under the Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF), supporting the implementation of the DC Access System (DCAS).

The Department of Health Care Finance s is looking for Junior UAT Tester with experience utilizing various testing methodologies and tools such as, but not limited to JIRA and Salesforce. The incumbents will utilize these tools, the data/scenarios provided and their proven experience to perform various testing tasks such as building and maintaining test plans, test suites and End to End business processes of work to ensure that the DC Access System meets business requirements.

The position is 4 days a week on site at 955 L'Enfant Plaza SW and 1 day telework.

This is a position in the DC Access System (DCAS) implementation project Behavior Characteristics • Strong analytical and problem solving • Team-player and cooperative • Driven and self-starter

Responsibilities:

1. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
2. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/products. This is a professional position which may require subject matter expertise consistent with demanding and rare technological skills.
3. May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team.
4. Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design.
5. Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements.
6. Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders.
7. May coordinate activities of application developers.
8. Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
9. Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems.
10. Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies.
11. Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies.
12. Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
13. Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.
14. Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
15. May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).
16. Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Candidate Skills Matrix:

Following sections are to be filled by the candidate:

Skills | Required/Desired | No. of Years | How many years of experience candidate has? Proven hands-on working experience in UAT testing utilizing various testing techniques, methodologies, tools (Selenium, QC ALM, SQL) | Required | 4 | Must have hands on UAT exp building, maintaining test plans, test suites, writing & executing E2E test cases, managing defects | Required | 4 | UAT experience with writing test scripts according to End-to-End business processes to work, support and help the non-technical Business SMEs | Required | 4 | Hands on experience in HP JIRA with requirements to test cases to defects traceability, execution defect tracking & reporting | Required | 4 | 6-10 yrs. conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty | Required | 6 | 6-10 yrs. preparing complex technical documentation | Required | 6 | Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience | Required | | Team player, quick responsive, individual contributor, coordinator, adaptive to accept changes in complex environment; Task/Goal driven | Highly desired | | Strong analytical skills; Proficient Time-management ability; Detail oriented; Excellent written & verbal communication | Highly desired | | Have client facing skills; Have vast knowledge of testing techniques to cover all possible corner E2E cases for UAT testing with V&V | Highly desired | | Working knowledge of Microsoft Visio to develop flow diagrams/ process diagrams as well as knowledge of the full MS Office Suite | Nice to have | | Candidate must meet qualifications for a journeyman level role. | Required | |

Background check:

Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration. If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. NATIONAL background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A national background check is a national criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State.