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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Medicaid Enterprise System Test Analyst - **Company:** The State Of Colorado - **Location:** Denver, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $59,460.0 - $77,304.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Testing (Software), Software Design Documents, File Systems, Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), Reference Data, Smoke Testing, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Test Data, Jama (Software), Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gp2yg8 ## About the Role Six (6) total years of professional experience in software testing for complex IT systems., Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Business, Computer Science, IT, or a related field AND Two (2) total years of professional experience in software testing for complex IT systems. Appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis. Relevant education will be calculated as the following: + An associates will count as two years of experience + A bachelors will count as four years of experience + A masters degree will count for six years of experience + A doctorate or juris doctorate degree will count for seven years of experience Note: Per the Job Application Fairness Act (https://careers.colorado.gov/sites/careers/files/documents/Job%20Application%20Fairness%20Act.pdf) (Download PDF reader) , you may redact information that identifies your age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution on your transcripts. Preferred Qualifications + Previous relevant professional state experience + Masters degree in Business, Health Care Administration, or a related field + Professional experience with: + State Medicaid software + Writing and executing test cases + Jama software Skills to Support Success + Communication skills across internal and external stakeholder teams + Teamwork Definition of Professional Experience: Work that involves exercising discretion, analytical skill, judgment, personal accountability, and responsibility for creating, developing, integrating, applying, and sharing an organized body of knowledge that characteristically is uniquely acquired through an intense education or training regimen at a recognized college or university; equivalent to the curriculum requirements for a bachelor's or higher degree with major study in or pertinent to the specialized field; and continuously studied to explore, extend, and use additional discoveries, interpretations, and application and to improve data, materials, equipment, applications and methods. ## Description The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities. The Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) oversees and operates Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid Program), Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), and other state public health programs for qualified Coloradans. Our mission is to improve health care equity, access and outcomes for the people we serve while saving Coloradans money on health care and driving value for Colorado. We are looking for a Medicaid Enterprise System Test Analyst for the Contracts & Quality Assurance Division of the Health Information Office (HIO) ! The Contracts & Quality Assurance Division in HIO manages quality assurance and testing for the Colorado Medicaid Enterprise Solutions (CMES) ecosystem to help ensure timely, accurate processing and payment for Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program), Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), Behavioral Health Administration (BHA)-related services, and other covered programs in an environment of rapid policy and system change. The unit supports program management for Health First Colorado and related programs with a multi-billion-dollar annual budget. The work unit researches, verifies, and validates CMES modules and subsystems; evaluates project requests; develops test scenarios and test cases; and executes testing throughout the software development life cycle. The work unit coordinates with internal and external stakeholders, the MMIS/interChange vendor, CMES module vendors, and Department program and business analyst work units to deliver high-quality, compliant changes that meet program policies. The work unit also supports state and federal audits of Department systems and programs related to claims reimbursement, provider enrollment, and benefits coverage., + Reviews approved business requirements, system requirements, change requests, design documents, interface specifications, release notes, and acceptance criteria to identify test scope, dependencies, risks, and expected results for Colorado interChange and other CMES modules. + Develops risk-based test strategies, scenarios, test cases, scripts, and expected results for functional, user acceptance, regression, integration, interface, end-to-end, negative, and error-handling testing. + Identifies and prepares test data representing claims, encounters, providers, members, eligibility, benefits, capitation, reference data, and other transactions needed to verify system behavior. + Maintains requirements-to-test traceability and confirms that each approved requirement and identified risk is covered by one or more test cases. + Executes approved test cases for Colorado interChange/MMIS and related CMES modules, including PBMS, DSS/BIDM, CBMS, and connected interfaces, using functional, user acceptance, regression, integration, end-to-end, and smoke testing methods. + Verifies system calculations, claims adjudication and pricing, eligibility and enrollment, provider data, capitation, file processing, reports, notices, batch jobs, and other outputs against documented expected results. + Captures complete test evidence, including transaction identifiers, screenshots, input and output files, control totals, queries, reports, logs, and actual results, and records pass, fail, blocked, or not-run status in the approved test repository. + Serves as a testing subject matter expert for inbound and outbound interfaces among Colorado interChange/MMIS, PBMS, DSS/BIDM, CBMS, and other CMES modules; validates file layouts, data mappings, acknowledgments, control totals, error handling, timing, and end-to-end reconciliation. + Coordinates assigned test cycles with program staff, business analysts, system analysts, vendors, and other testers; confirms environments, builds, access, data, dependencies, schedules, and defect turnaround. + Selects and executes regression suites for monthly releases, change orders, emergency fixes, and vendor upgrades to verify that unchanged functions continue to operate as expected., An applicant who has been removed from an employment list or removed from consideration during the selection process may request a review by the State Personnel Director. As an applicant directly affected by the results of the selection or comparative analysis process, you may file a written appeal with the State Personnel Director. Review of the completed, signed, and submitted appeal will be timely on the basis of written material submitted by you, using the official appeal form signed by you or your representative. This form must be completed and delivered to the State Personnel Board by email at dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgment of the Department's action. For further information on the Board Rules, you can refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov/board-rules . ## Related Videos - [SMART Test Automation - the experience of legacy transformation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100215-smart-test-automation-the-experience-of-legacy-transformation) - [Implementing smoke testing and proactive monitoring in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/171-implementing-smoke-testing-and-proactive-monitoring-in-production) - [Possibilities with Web Capabilities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1575-possibilities-with-web-capabilities) - [Dirty Tests And How To Clean Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/515-dirty-tests-and-how-to-clean-them) - [How to TDD in legacy code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/309-how-to-tdd-in-legacy-code) - [ Project Fugu: Progressive Web Apps, Superpowered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/290-project-fugu-progressive-web-apps-superpowered) ## Related Articles - [How to create a test plan for software testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/56-how-to-create-a-test-plan-for-software-testing) - [Integration And E2E Testing: Are They Complementary or Interchangeable?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/86-integration-and-e2e-testing-are-they-complementary-or-interchangeable) - [Should senior developers refuse interview coding challenges?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/29-should-senior-developers-refuse-interview-coding-challenges) - [The 8 Best Code Testing Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/402-the-8-best-code-testing-tools) - [What is a Test Plan: Guide to Test Planning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/191-what-is-a-test-plan-guide-to-test-planning) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer)