[Hiring] Software Test Engineer @Falcon IT and Staffing Solutions

Role Description

Seeking a motivated, career-oriented, and customer-focused Software Test Engineer to support testing and quality-assurance activities for mission-critical healthcare applications operating in MUMPS and InterSystems Caché environments. This role will support modernization efforts, system enhancements, healthcare-interoperability initiatives, and production-support activities associated with long-lived healthcare systems.

The Software Test Engineer will lead and execute comprehensive functional, integration, regression, system, user-acceptance, and end-to-end testing activities. The successful candidate will collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, healthcare end users, and customer stakeholders to validate requirements; safeguard data integrity; resolve defects; and ensure healthcare applications meet quality, performance, reliability, interoperability, and compliance expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience testing applications developed using MUMPS and/or InterSystems Caché.
• Experience developing and executing detailed test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, test cases, test procedures, and test-summary reports.
• Experience conducting functional, regression, integration, system, end-to-end, and user-acceptance testing.
• Strong understanding of the software-development lifecycle (SDLC), software-testing methodologies, defect-management processes, and quality-assurance best practices.
• Experience validating healthcare business workflows, application functionality, requirements, and system behavior.
• Experience validating database updates, data transformations, interface data exchanges, and data integrity across applications and integrated systems.
• Ability to analyze system logs, application errors, database results, interface messages, and test outcomes to identify root causes and support issue resolution.
• Experience testing system interfaces, data exchanges, and integrations across internal applications, healthcare platforms, and external systems.
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards, including HL7, FHIR, and HIPAA EDI Transactions.
• Experience validating healthcare EDI transactions, including 278 Prior Authorization and 275 Attachments.
• Experience using defect-tracking and test-management tools, including Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, TestRail, or comparable tools.
• Experience creating and maintaining testing metrics, quality dashboards, defect reports, risk assessments, and test-status reports.
• Strong technical documentation skills, including the ability to produce clear test artifacts, defect reports, requirements-traceability documentation, and operational-support materials.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex software, integration, data, and production issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate test results, quality risks, and technical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work directly with business users, healthcare end users, customer stakeholders, and cross-functional technical teams.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple testing activities, assignments, and deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to ensuring software quality, reliability, patient-data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to lead testing efforts, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior testers.
• Experience supporting production troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and verification of corrective actions.
• U.S. Citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

Requirements

• Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense, or other Federal healthcare systems.
• Experience supporting VistA applications and testing FileMan database functionality.
• Experience testing enterprise applications that support clinical care, healthcare benefits, claims, enrollment, eligibility, or other healthcare operations.
• Experience supporting legacy applications and long-lived, mission-critical healthcare systems.
• ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, or comparable software-testing or quality-assurance certification.
• Experience working within Agile and Scrum development environments.
• Test-automation experience, including development or execution of automated test scripts and regression suites.
• SQL and database-validation experience.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted healthcare applications and cloud-based system integrations.
• Familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and release-validation activities.
• Experience supporting modernization initiatives involving legacy healthcare systems, interoperability platforms, or data-migration activities.
• Familiarity with Federal healthcare programs, healthcare regulations, and compliance requirements.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field.
• Eight additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for formal education.
• A minimum of ten years of software testing, quality assurance, system validation, or related technical experience.
• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience testing enterprise applications that support clinical, benefits, or healthcare operations.
• Demonstrated experience supporting legacy applications and long-lived mission-critical systems.