Senior Application Tester

Senior Application Tester

Who We Are

WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS Health Solutions has been making health care easier for the people we serve for more than 75 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.

Culture Drives Our Success

WPS' Performance-Based Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as an investment in our workforce-both current and future-to effectively seek, leverage, and include diverse perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.

From 2021 to 2023, WPS Health Solutions was recognized for several awards:

• Madison, Wisconsin's Top Workplaces
• USA Top Workplaces and the cultural excellence awards for Remote Work and Work-Life Flexibility
• Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces® with the further honor of Achievers "Elite 8" winner in the category of Culture Alignment
• DAV Patriot Employer
• VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer
• BBB Torch Award for Ethics from Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin

Role SnapshotOur Senior Application Tester participates in testing a variety of applications, systems software changes across our Health Insurance business line. In this role you will perform analysis and triage system issues for resolution or for additional research. Be a leader in collecting, analyzing, and reporting on metrics relating to testing efficiency and effectiveness.

• Review software requirements and prepare test scenarios.
• Create and execute test plans and review actual results against expectations.
• Identify, review, document, and report defects.
• Participate in design reviews and provide input on requirements, product design, and potential problems.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the process.

How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:

• Are comfortable working closely with leaders, stakeholders, and Scrum teams to understand change in systems and processes.
• Like to analyze and breakdown changes and enhancements to be converted to testing objectives with a high level of attention to detail.
• Have expertise utilizing various testing techniques to create efficient and effective Test Plans and Test Cases with unique steps and definitive expected results.
• Enjoy participating in test plan and test coverage review sessions to ensure appropriate coverage of all requirements.
• Can log bugs with ample detail around the steps to reproduce.
• Would enjoy creating and maintaining traceability matrices showing end-to-end testing process from requirements through workflow linkages, providing for quick remediation of bugs and determination of end user impacts.
• Can identify and utilize risk analysis in test planning and prioritization.
• Are able to recognize and explain opportunities for test automation.
• Want to quickly learn new systems and technology.
• Are able to motivate others, communicate with confidence, clarity, and sound reasoning when discussing concerns, ideas, and suggestions with all levels of staff and management.
• Possess an understanding of the software development lifecycle, particularly how appropriate testing and deployment activities are embedded in an Agile methodology.

What will I gain from this role?

• Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.
• Experience working on a software testing team, with the backing and support from ground-floor to executive-level employees that are driven to achieve and maintain quality standards.
• Growth within an environment of hardworking individuals with diverse IT backgrounds and skillsets.
• Experience working in a growing Agile Scrum environment with partner teams working in other various styles of Agile.
• Experience working in an environment that serves our Nation's military, veterans, Guard and Reserves and Medicare beneficiaries.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent post high school and/or related work experience.
• 1 or more years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 or more years working as a manual software tester or working on an IT project team.
• 5 or more years in a process/quality improvement role.
• Advanced software testing certifications.
• Experience with WPS systems that includes Facets and Portal Testing.

Salary Range

85,000 ~ 100,000

The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, experience and may fall outside the posted range.

This role is open to remote work for this opportunity in the following approved states:

Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin

Remote Worker Requirements

For remote position, employee is required to meet remote worker requirements, including a designated workstation, a wired (Ethernet) connection to the network, and a minimum of 10Mbps downstream connection with at least 1Mbps upstream (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)

Benefits

• Remote work is encouraged, hybrid options are available
• Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
• 401(k) with dollar-per-dollar match up to 6% of salary (100% vested immediately)
• Competitive paid time off
• Health, dental insurance, Teladoc starts DAY 1
• Review additional benefits here

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)