Analyst, Quality Assurance

Company: Evolent Health
Location: Providence
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Your Future Evolves Here
New Century Health (NCH) has been transforming the delivery of specialty care and driving radical cost and quality improvement across the member journey for patients with cancer and cardiovascular disease. As part of Evolent Health, we are on a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Evolenteers make a difference wherever they are, whether it is at a medical center, in the office, or while working from home across 48 states. We empower you to work from where you work best, which makes juggling careers, families, and social lives so much easier. Through our recognition programs, we also highlight employees who live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing their whole selves to work each day. If youre looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, dont just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.
Why Were Worth the Application:
We continue to grow year over year.

Recognized as a leader in driving important diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts (https://www.evolenthealth.com/diversity) .

Achieved a 100% score two years in a row on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index recognizing us as a best place to work for LGBTQ+ equality.

Named to Parity.orgs list of the best companies for women to advance for 3 years in a row (https://www.evolenthealth.com/about-us/press-releases/9328/evolent-health-named-to-parity.org%E2%80%99s-best-companies-for-women-to-advance-list-2022) (2020, 2021 and 2022).

Continue to prioritize the employee experience and achieved a 90% overall engagement score on our employee survey in May 2022.

Publish an annual DE&I report (https://dev.evolenthealth.com/sites/default/files-public/Evolent%20Health%202020%20DE%26I%20Annual%20Report.pdf) to share our progress on how were building an equitable workplace.

What Youll Be Doing:
Who Youll Be Working With:
Our Technical team at New Century Health (wholly owned subsidiary of Evolent Health) is looking for a QA Analyst to part of EDWBI platform team to help build data driven analytics apps leveraging existing EDWBI platform. Successful candidates will be self-driven, curious, and ready to challenge their peers. Most work will be performed using MS SQL server-based tools, so knowledge of MS SQL 2016 is desired. Ability to define heuristic testing techniques for Data based applications and interconnected sub-systems to reduce risk and increase the confidence of clients and stake holders.
What Youll Be Doing:
You will be part of core EDWBI development team testing every code that is required to be released to production. Your QA sign-off will be required as part of release management.

You will be championing Change Management processes by applying QA rigor for each development work ensuring high quality delivery.

You will be preparing test plans and test cases for each development work to ensure quality and timely deliverable of the project.

Your role would require tactical shrewdness to identify and introduce smart techniques to work closely with developers and find issues early in the development process. Relentlessly improve testing activities and automate as and when the opportunity and return on automation is beneficial.

Use the mantra all code is guilty until proven innocent to motivate Test Driven Development (TDD), lean thinking and good programming practices. Use different problem-solving techniques to conduct root cause analysis of systemic issues and identify, prioritize and mitigate system bottlenecks, with the end goal of overall system optimization.

Understand the importance of solving the business problem to accelerate the product delivery with approaches like test automation, continuous integration, delivery and deployment.

Aptitude and attitude of thinking Quality is not a separate phase, its a culture. Be ready and willing to educate team members on quality standards and help them to apply quality gates right from requirements to delivery of the intended solution.

The Experience Youll Need (Required):
Expert level T-SQL experience in writing/maintaining stored procedures and complex queries.

Experienced as a QA analyst in data warehouse development projects with knowledge of DW schema and methodologies.

Expertise in Test Driven Development methodology and Agile development.

Strong attention to detail, ensuring processes are followed and root cause remediation is planned and executed for each issue, and that actions are fully documented.

Critical thinker with the vision to work both tactically and strategically.

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, ability to modify communication style to match the appropriate level of the audience targeted, with strong understanding of the impact of a message on the organization or customer.

Finishing Touches (Preferred):
Healthcare industry experience with exposure to healthcare/authorization and claims and related data (desirable)

Experience with QA processes alignment with SOX compliance would be huge plus.

Prior experience as SQL/ETL developer will be a plus.

Knowledge of performance tuning databases and SQL statements optimization would be a plus.

Experience with QA testing of Business Intelligence Reporting

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Technical Requirements:
Currently, Evolent employees work remotely temporarily due to COVID-19. As such, we require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations.
Evolent Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all its employees, partners and patients and complies with all applicable local, state, and national law regarding COVID health and vaccination requirements. Evolent expects all employees to also comply. We currently require all employees who may voluntarily return to our Evolent offices to be vaccinated and invite all employees regardless of vaccination status to remain working from home.
Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.
Compensation Range: The minimum salary for this position is $90,000, plus benefits. Salaries are determined by the skill set required for the position and commensurate with experience and may vary above and below the stated amounts.
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