Senior SAS Quality Assurance Tester (Remote)

Description

We have a consulting opportunity for a Senior SAS Quality Assurance Tester for a State Healthcare client. The technical requirements for this position are defined in the attached Job Description. The job is remote. The starting duration is 6 months. Please make sure that any proposed candidate has met the requirements outlined in the JD below.

• Duration: 6 months (960 hours).. with strong possibility to get extended long term.
• Working Arrangement: 100% remote;
• Citizenship requirement: live in the Continental US.

QUALIFICATIONS – ESSENTIAL

• Preference: Prior SAS experience or working knowledge of Medicaid data
• Education: A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field is required and equivalent work experience required.

SAS product knowledge (preferred):

• SAS VA, SAS Viya, SAS Studio

Skill set:

• SAS Base programming and SQL
• Ability to interpret business and technical requirements and translate them into test scenarios
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience presenting test results and recommendations to customers and project stakeholders
• Detail-oriented and curious; asks clarifying questions
• Works well on a team and works independently with minimal guidance once onboarded
• Jira, TestRail, or similar defect/test management tools
• Linux
• Preferred: ETL processing, testing experience (test planning, test case development, documentation), SAS 9.4 Base Programmer Certification
• Experience testing ETL, reporting, and data integrations

DESCRIPTION and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review requirements, design, and testing documentation
• Partner with project teams and customers to clarify requirements and testing expectations
• Create and maintain requirements traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and test evidence
• Develop test case specifications, run tests, document results, and save test documentation in the right repository
• Follow a formal QA process
• Review code and write independent validation code
• Verify that the software solution meets specifications
• Document and manage issues and defects; track and retest problems
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) be preparing test scenarios, assisting users during execution, answering questions, and documenting results