QATest Manager

Position: QA/Test Manager 3
Location: 4601 W. Guadalupe Street Austin TX 78751
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Estimated Start Date: September 3 2026
Estimated End Date: August 31 2027
Estimated Hours: Up to 2000 hours
Submission Deadline: August 16 2026 at 5:00 PM CT

Location Requirement

Only local candidates will be accepted.

Candidates must already reside in Texas and be able to work onsite in Austin. Candidates currently living outside Texas who are planning to relocate will not be considered.

Position Overview

Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking an experienced QA Lead/Manager to provide overall leadership for quality assurance strategy planning execution and governance for a large-scale Electronic Health Record SaaS implementation.

This individual will take ownership of the testing effort and serve as the primary QA contact for program leadership IT teams vendors clinical stakeholders and business users. The role requires deep experience with healthcare application testing EHR workflows data migration validation ETL testing functional testing integration testing regression testing UAT defect management and stakeholder reporting.

The QA Lead will ensure that EHR workflows converted data interfaces SaaS configurations and vendor releases meet business clinical regulatory audit security and project delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall QA strategy planning governance and execution for the EHR SaaS implementation.
• Develop and maintain testing approaches schedules resource plans and QA governance standards.
• Serve as the primary QA point of contact for program leadership business stakeholders IT teams clinical users and vendors.
• Report testing progress risks metrics defects and readiness to project leadership.
• Ensure defects are documented prioritized resolved retested and validated before deployment.
• Lead data migration and conversion testing from legacy EHR and ancillary systems.
• Validate patient clinical pharmacy billing and historical records for accuracy completeness and reconciliation.
• Review and test ETL processes data mappings validation rules and reconciliation reports.
• Conduct pre-load and post-load validation record-count comparisons field-level verification and exception analysis.
• Coordinate testing for interfaces inbound and outbound data feeds and downstream reporting impacts.
• Lead functional testing across clinical scheduling orders medications documentation pharmacy and billing modules.
• Validate end-to-end workflows across clinicians nurses pharmacy personnel registration teams and administrative users.
• Oversee system integration regression and user acceptance testing.
• Ensure SaaS configuration changes and vendor releases are thoroughly tested.
• Partner with clinical and business SMEs to develop UAT scenarios and test cases.
• Lead UAT execution defect triage remediation validation and sign-off activities.
• Create and maintain test plans test cases requirements traceability matrices testing evidence and audit documentation.
• Track defects and test execution through tools such as Azure DevOps ALM or Jira.
• Support manual and automated testing approaches where appropriate.
• Ensure all testing documentation meets compliance audit privacy security and project delivery standards.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have at least 11 years of experience in each of the following areas:

• QA/Test Lead or QA/Test Manager responsibilities.
• Data validation data migration and ETL testing.
• Functional testing across EHR modules including clinical scheduling orders medications documentation and billing.
• Validating end-to-end workflows across clinical and administrative user groups.
• Data migration and conversion testing involving legacy EHR and ancillary systems.
• Validation of patient clinical pharmacy billing and historical records.
• Testing SaaS configuration changes and vendor releases.
• Coordinating the testing of interfaces inbound and outbound data feeds and downstream reporting.
• Creating and maintaining test plans test cases traceability matrices and test evidence.
• Coordinating testing with vendors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Using test management tools such as Azure DevOps ALM or Jira.
• Working in Agile and/or hybrid delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 years of EHR implementation experience involving clinical pharmacy and billing workflows.
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards including:
  • HL7
  • FHIR
  • CCD/CCD-A
  • ICD
  • CPT
• Understanding of HIPAA healthcare privacy security and government compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting state government or public-sector healthcare systems.

Required Skills:

QA