Job Description
Job title: Manual QA - Tester (remote)
Pay: $37/hr Role Summary: The Manual QA Tester will be responsible for validating ETL processes, data transformations, reporting outputs, and end-to-end healthcare data workflows. The role requires deep understanding of data quality, SQL-based validation, Microsoft BI tools, and healthcare compliance standards. The tester will work independently while guiding junior testers and supporting test leads.
Key Responsibilities: - Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements to identify testable scenarios and clarify ambiguities in user stories and specifications.
- Design comprehensive manual test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for applications and data platforms.
- Validate data mapping, transformations, aggregations, and business rules across source systems, staging layers, data warehouses, and reporting layers.
- Perform data integrity checks, reconciliations, and consistency validations using SQL and other data validation techniques.
- Test and validate ETL pipelines, SSIS packages, batch jobs, scheduled workflows, and data extracts for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Validate SSRS reports, BI dashboards, and downstream deliverables to ensure alignment with warehouse data and business expectations.
- Execute manual testing for web applications, Windows-based desktop applications, backend/data services, ETL processes, and reporting solutions.
- Perform smoke, system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate end-to-end healthcare workflows and data flows.
- Identify, log, track, and manage defects using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps, and collaborate with developers and data engineers to resolve issues and verify fixes.
- Document test execution results, defect reports, test evidence, and sign-off artifacts to support quality assurance, audits, and compliance.
- Ensure all testing activities comply with healthcare regulatory standards such as HIP nd support audit and compliance requirements.
- Communicate test results, risks, quality metrics, and recommendations clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Guide and mentor junior testers, assist test leads with reporting and estimation, and contribute to continuous QA process improvements.
Required Skills: - 4-6 years of experience in manual testing, with strong focus on ETL, data transformation, and data validation.
- Proven experience in healthcare domain testing, including regulatory and compliance requirements (HIPAA).
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft database technology stack (SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS).
- Advanced SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation, and integrity checks.
- Experience testing data warehouses, staging layers, and reporting systems.
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of testing methodologies, testing life cycle, and QA best practices.
- Ability to design efficient test cases, create test data, and execute tests independently.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Qualification: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in manual QA testing with ETL and data-focused applications.
- Healthcare domain experience is mandatory.
- Experience with Microsoft BI and database tools is required.
- Relevant testing or healthcare IT certifications are a plus.
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