Our purpose is to serve the nation with the single most trusted and capable health information network, built to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. 

You have a relentless desire to get stuff done. A true champion of the collective objective, you're energized by applying your expertise with a group of talented people to achieve something important, together. You're curious and passionate about new technologies and cutting-edge innovation, and you enjoy pulling together complex pieces of a puzzle to deliver a powerful and meaningful end-product. You're a translator between people and teams that don't use the same lingo. You don't settle for short-term gratificationyou're into long-haul, incremental efforts that require endurance, patience and next-level collaboration.

Surescripts Network Technology and Operations (NT&O) is comprised of smart people who love to work towards a common goal, often delivering an innovative, industry-leading solution to the healthcare marketplace. We pride ourselves on quality work that's grounded in complete transparency and accountability. When a project goes off the railsand they do from time to timewe rally around each other to fix it and move on. While our gratification is often the result of a months-long effort, we never tire of delivering a huge result that has an exponentially positive impact on the healthcare systemwhether it's quality, cost or patient safety.

Working at Surescripts NT&O, your thinking cap will always be on. You'll be challenged to make sure that disparate, cross-functional pieces come together to create a desired result. You might swarm around some work if you think a milestone is about to be missed. You'll work to quickly understand diverse technologies, and establish and maintain relationships with groups who see and talk about things differently.

To provide in-depth quality assurance support for Surescripts software development. The QA Engineer plays a key role in the software development process as part of an agile team, working with product owners, developers, analysts, and other team members to define, prioritize, estimate, and communicate testing aspects of stories within the agile team's project scope. QA engineers are expected to support planning and strategizing of the test automation effort for the agile team.  Individuals are expected to attain a detailed knowledge of our applications and application interfaces as well as a solid understanding of our underlying business products and processes.

• Collaborate within an agile team providing input for product backlog, sprint planning, story development and testing, demos, and team retrospective.
• Communicate and interact within an agile team on issues, changes, and enhancements that may impact data, workflow and /or functionality within the team's product responsibilities.
• Review story requirements, design, and acceptance criteria during team planning to provide timely and meaningful feedback for robust story details.
• Create and organize effective test strategy and planning to ensure software quality and to confirm business, technical and functional requirements.
  • Design system, regression, and integration tests to validate application releases.
  • Create comprehensive test data to support test cases.
  • Execute tests based on test strategy/plans. Tests may be manual or automated.
  • Support testing processes from manual testing to automated testing.
  • Provide concise and accurate documentation of software defects and issues.
  • Report test results to support story sign off by Product Owner.
• Develop highly effective working relationships with product owners, developers, analysts, and other team members in support of the software process to ensure that releases are tested and ready for a production environment.
• Create, analyze, review, and revise QA and system documentation as necessary based on changing functionality of applications.
• Attain and maintain a high level of expertise regarding processing to and from Surescripts, and a moderate understanding of the dependencies between applications within Surescripts' systems.
• Perform system, regression, and integrated tests across multiple environments as changes are promoted and staged for production.
• Support the automated test efforts within the agile team.
  • Identify manual tests to be included in automated test suite.
  • Work with agile team members on framework enhancements/changes as needed.
  • Update/Add manual tests into the automated tests suite.
  • Support/Maintain the automated test suite to continually support product changes.

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
• 2 years of QA experience with hands-on participation in manual and automated testing of software applications.
• 2 years of experience with agile development process.
• 2 years recent hands-on experience with database and operating systems.
• 2 years of experience with ad-hoc query programs and writing SQL query statements

• Working knowledge of standard transactions sets (NCPDP, ANSI, IHE or Telecom).
• XML and Edifact formats
• Json for web services

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel (sometimes extensively), communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Surescripts participates in E-Verify.