Quality Assurance Lead Analyst

Knipper Health
US - New Jersey - Somerset
March 21, 2025

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY:

The role of the Software Quality Assurance (QA) Lead is to ensure that the highest quality business solutions are delivered in the most efficient and consistent manner maximizing value and minimizing cost through best practices and automation. Provides QA oversight and delivery ensuring software/system quality and audit requirements are met. Responsible for leading quality assurance professionals to validate development practices and thoroughly test and document software code changes prior to deployment to production.

Responsibilities

Lead Quality Assurance and Testing within an agile environment responsible for release management.
Define QA strategy and best practices for test automation and performance testing. Develop and execute test plans, develop test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related documentation
Effectively interpret design/requirements documentation and work with business and IT staff to create test plans/scripts
Work with the cross functional IT team and contribute to the completion and success of a project.
Meet organizational Software Quality program KPIs that ensure software quality
Analyze incoming data and client files for accuracy, completeness, and applicability
Verify processing logic, client parameters, data values, and calculations as applied
Conduct meetings with internal business units, business analysts, application development and project Management teams for requirements/implementation review and as otherwise as necessary throughout the project lifecycle
Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing effective and thorough bug reports, and verify bug fixes
Review deliverable content and format for accuracy, completeness, accessibility
Coordinate UAT and other testing related tasks with Business and other IT departments
Recommend process changes that lead to better overall solution quality
Utilize appropriate methodologies based on project needs, including standard templates and deliverable documents, dashboards, budgets and reporting
Proactively identify project risks and work collaboratively to identify and implement risk mitigation
Manage Test automation for UI / API using postman, .Net and Selenium or equivalent toolsets
Conduct software validation focusing on GAMP, 21 CFR Part 11, PDMA and HIPAA assessments on off-the-shelf software.
Conducting periodic reviews of validated systems
Responsible for the production deployment approval of all testing deliverables and achievement of testing milestones during a project.

The above duties are meant to be representative of the position and not all-inclusive.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Preferred BS or BA in Computer Science, Business Administration in related field or equivalent combination of experience and education.
Minimum 7+ years of experience ideally with 3+ years of pharmacy services experience as a manager, tester, configuration manager, or analyst
Four plus years of experience with information systems analysis, design, development and documentation preferably in insurance, health care, and/or retail
Knowledge of test automation techniques and best practices
Knowledge & experience in the health care industry/ pharmacy service preferred
Exposure to pharmaceutical industry data (NDC, IMS) and applications are a good to have in addition to knowledge of GAMP, PDMA, HIPAA, 21 CFRPart11 and FDAs validation requirements.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills.
Strong analytical skills to discover, analyze and resolve problems
Must have knowledge of Web Service technologies and Test automation technologies.
Knowledge of Pharmacy management, Order Management and Prescriber Validation System is plus.
Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change. Must be able to troubleshoot systemic IT validation issues and present solutions to IT validation problems. Should also apply validation engineering principles to the design and implementation of databases, applications, and/or capital projects.
Experience with source control systems such as Git, Bitbucket, GitHub as well as databases and SQL.
Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) a big plus
Must have a positive attitude, good problem-solving skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills. Ability to handle changing priorities

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Quality Assurance Lead Analyst