Automation engineer senior analyst

Position Overview
Plan and execute quality assurance for applications that move prior authorization and related healthcare data through batch files and real-time transactions. Support the supervisor in delivering and enabling QA; validate front-end and back-end behavior with SQL-focused and ETL-aware testing. Work with onsite/offshore Agile peers, exercise sound judgment on test planning, and contribute to stable releases. Hands-on automation QA experience is a strong plus—ideal candidates strengthen regression and CI while still owning manual and SQL-backed validation.
Responsibilities
- Define test activities, deliverables, and schedules; assess upstream/downstream impact across UI, services/APIs, messaging, and data for batch and real-time changes.
- Maintain smoke, functional, and regression suites for GUI and database/backend validation; apply SQL and ETL-style checks to pipelines, loads, and reconciliation.
- Partner with the Data team on test data and quality expectations; participate in Scrum with onsite/offshore developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and QA through functional, integration, and regression cycles.
- Execute API/Backend service testing and streaming validation where applicable (e.g., Kafka); work in Azure-oriented environments; analyze requirements, log and triage defects, and drive closure per Quality Engineering practices.
- Recommend test process and tooling improvements; design, maintain, or extend automated checks (UI/API/script) per team standards where skilled—automation depth is welcome even when the core need remains manual and SQL-backed testing; use C# as appropriate.
Qualifications
Core testing & SQL
- Functional, regression for GUI and database/backend; choose appropriate test types and assess requirement testability.
- Intermediate-to-complex SQL; back-end and ETL-style testing for batch and real-time processing.
- Healthcare experience strongly preferred; prior authorization or claims-adjacent familiarity; careful handling of regulated data.
. NET & Automation (Key Focus)
- Experience with. NET / C# for test automation or scripting
- Automation tools/frameworks such as:
- Selenium (C#) or Playwright (. NET)
- Experience building or maintaining automation frameworks
- Familiarity with CI/CD integration (Azure Dev Ops preferred)
APIs, platform & automation
- Hands-on API/services testing; exposure to Kafka and Azure (environments, monitoring, test access).
- Test management and defect tools (e.g., Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Service Now, Zephyr).
- Great plus: automation QA depth—build or maintain UI/API regression, integrate suites with CI/CD (e.g., Azure Dev Ops), debug flaky runs, partner on testability. Role is not SDET-only; blended automation + strong manual/SQL is ideal.
- Supporting: C# (preferred) ; common stacks such as Selenium, Playwright, REST Assured, or Postman.
Process & collaboration
- Manages competing priorities; supports supervisor and peers on execution and coaching.
- Strong analysis, problem solving, communication, and adaptability.
Required Experience & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology, with at-least 3-5 years of experience in automation engineering.
- Healthcare domain knowledge
- Knowledge in Manual + SQL + ETL testing,
- Supporting automation (primarily. NET-based where possible)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid analytical skills, highly organized, self-motivated and a quick learner
- Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities as necessary