QA Technical Tester - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

**Candidates who reside within 50 miles of the following locations may be asked to work in person three days per week: Bloomfield, CT, Chattanooga, TN, Denver, CO, St Louis, MO, or Scottsdale, AZ.** **Role Summary** The QA Technical Tester / QA \& Testing Advisor is responsible for strategizing and implementing QA practices and process across the Prepay organization. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and adhering to Safe agile practices. The candidate will work with the team in designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy. The QA will also work closely with Software Developers and other testers in small scrum or Kanban teams to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost\-effective manner. Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, comparing and manipulating data, creating, maintaining and executing test plans and test cases, estimating test efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participating in day\-to\-day testing activities. The candidate will also be responsible for ensuring regression test scripts are current and are in the appropriate format for automation. **Responsibilities:** * Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge and methodologies to the team * Works with business partners and IT staff to establish and maintain a consistent testing methodology * Identify and prepare complex test data to support the test cases defined by the team * Design, develop and code SQL programs to execute backend code tests * Design a comprehensive testing strategy \& build test suites * Design, develop and maintain regression test beds and schedule test cycles * Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re\-usable test sets * Ensure regression scripts are in appropriate format for automation * Test execution\-manual and automated * Perform UAT of functional requirements * Utilize appropriate testing tools * Assist in the coordination of User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End to End (E2E) testing * Validate and report progress, risks, issues and defects to agile team * Communicates with business partners and agile team members throughout the project life cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective systems and deliverables * Be an active participant during PI Planning, retrospective and daily stand\-up meetings and business demonstrations * Participates in the review of QA procedures and processes and the development of QA metrics for assessing the quality delivered application software or systems. * Support all post implementation activities, such as post implementation testing and lessons learned analysis **Qualifications:** Bachelor’s degree or higher strongly preferred in business or Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. 6 \+ years experience in testing highly preferred. Experience with automation testing is required. Advanced database experience in SQL se