Automation Engineer Senior Analyst

About the job

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 plusideal 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 skilledautomation depth is welcome even when the core need remains manual and SQL-backed testing; use C# as appropriate.

QualificationsCore 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 DevOps preferred)

APIs, platform & automation