Senior Quality Assurance Analyst - Albany, NY

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As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for the State of New York All Payer Database (APD) Project, you will be responsible for understanding and analyzing all aspects of contractually required services and deliverables for the APD project. You will be a business specialist and subject matter expert, analyzing and solutioning requirements with colleagues and business clients. You will be responsible for the quality assurance of APD data warehouse components of the solution
 
Please note that this position is based in Albany, NY.  Telecommuting is not an option for this position
 
 
Primary Responsibilities:
 
You will be responsible for developing deep expertise in all aspects of the NY APD business processes, business requirements and strategic vision. You will be a key contributor to the NY APD requirements traceability matrix (RTM), to insure all contract requirements are being met by the delivered solution. Your responsibilities may include:

Serve as a key resource in decomposing and solutioning complex analytic requirements
Recognize, gather, correlate, and analyze facts, draw conclusions, define problems, and devise solutions and alternatives; and make appropriate recommendations
Able to present information in a variety of formats (charts, graphs, tables) to help leadership and stakeholders understand requirements and issues that surface
Ability to explain technical issues in words the customer will understand
Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, using a range of tools, including MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel and MS Visio
Champion privacy and security for all analytic components of the NY APD solution
Partner with leadership and customers to track and understand defects; Assume accountability and/or ownership to work defect through to resolution
Proficient in SQL to allow for data analysis and data exploration of quality issues that surface
Knowledge of data quality and master data management concepts to allow for strong participation and support of these key components of the NY APD solution
Work closely with product owners and developers to translate business requirements into test plans; work with resources to investigate and resolve issues
Responsible for support of an enterprise quality assurance program, working with NY APD data governance committee resources to continuously discover and remediate source data issues through time
Look for ways to improve the overall quality of the development process, and serve as an advocate for high quality standards

Required Qualifications:

3+ years of Healthcare payer data analysis experience with one or more of the following: Medicaid data, Medicare data, Healthcare Exchange data or Commercial payer data
5+ years of Data Warehousing experience
3+ years of data analysis experience using SQL
2+ years of data analysis experience using one or more of the following BI Tools: Tableau, Cognos, SAS, Business Objects or ESRI  
5+ years of experience as Quality Assurance Analyst
Preferred Qualifications:

State Medicaid Data Warehouse or Medicaid Management Information Systems experience
Experience with NY Medicaid/Health Exchange data
Experience with NY State commercial healthcare payer data
Oracle experience
Tableau experience
Previous experience providing technical support as a Help Desk Analyst or similar role
Strong working knowledge of data quality and master data management concepts
Strong working knowledge of change management and incident management procedures and best practices
Proficiency with MS Excel, MS Access and MS PowerPoint
Excellent problem solving skills, including managing multiple priorities, and researching conflicting and/or inaccurate data
Experience communicating data analysis results, including trends and opportunities, both verbally and in written form, to clients and the business
Experience analyzing business processes/workflows, and providing evaluations, benchmarks and/or process improvement recommendations
 
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