Software Test Engineer (MUMPS / Healthcare Systems)

HigherEchelon is seeking a motivated, career-oriented, and customer-focused Software Test Engineer to support testing and quality-assurance activities for mission-critical healthcare applications operating in MUMPS and InterSystems Cach environments. This role will support modernization efforts, system enhancements, healthcare-interoperability initiatives, and production-support activities associated with long-lived healthcare systems., * Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, test procedures, and traceability artifacts for healthcare applications operating in MUMPS and InterSystems Cach environments.

• Validate software enhancements, maintenance releases, defect corrections, configuration changes, system upgrades, and modernization activities.
• Plan and perform functional, integration, regression, system, user-acceptance, end-to-end, and production-validation testing.
• Validate healthcare business workflows, application functionality, clinical and benefits-processing scenarios, and system requirements.
• Verify data integrity across legacy healthcare applications, FileMan databases, interfaces, healthcare messaging platforms, and external partner systems.
• Test healthcare interoperability transactions and interfaces utilizing HL7, FHIR, HIPAA EDI, and related industry standards.
• Validate EDI healthcare transactions, including 278 Prior Authorization and 275 Additional Information to Support a Health Care Services Review transactions.
• Participate in Beta and Initial Operating Capability (IOC) testing with healthcare facilities, end users, and customer stakeholders; document results and coordinate issue resolution.
• Analyze, document, troubleshoot, and support resolution of software defects, test failures, integration issues, data discrepancies, and production incidents.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, systems engineers, and end users to clarify requirements, establish test objectives, and validate solution readiness.
• Develop and maintain test data, test environments, test accounts, and test configurations that support representative healthcare workflows and business processes.
• Execute manual and automated testing activities, as applicable, and recommend opportunities to increase test automation and testing efficiency.
• Track, document, communicate, and report test execution metrics, defects, risks, quality indicators, release-readiness status, and issue-resolution progress.
• Validate integrations involving VistA, FileMan, healthcare messaging platforms, cloud-hosted services, and external partner systems.
• Support root-cause analysis activities and perform regression testing to verify that software fixes resolve identified issues without introducing unintended impacts.
• Review business requirements, system requirements, technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure testability, traceability, and complete test coverage.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, quality standards, test documentation, defect-management procedures, and validation methodologies.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on test strategy, quality-assurance practices, testing risks, and validation approaches for healthcare and government systems.
• Mentor junior testers and support collaboration across cross-functional technical teams.

• Experience testing applications developed using MUMPS and/or InterSystems Cach.
• Experience developing and executing detailed test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, test cases, test procedures, and test-summary reports.
• Experience conducting functional, regression, integration, system, end-to-end, and user-acceptance testing.
• Strong understanding of the software-development lifecycle (SDLC), software-testing methodologies, defect-management processes, and quality-assurance best practices.
• Experience validating healthcare business workflows, application functionality, requirements, and system behavior.
• Experience validating database updates, data transformations, interface data exchanges, and data integrity across applications and integrated systems.
• Ability to analyze system logs, application errors, database results, interface messages, and test outcomes to identify root causes and support issue resolution.
• Experience testing system interfaces, data exchanges, and integrations across internal applications, healthcare platforms, and external systems.
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards, including:
• HL7
• FHIR
• HIPAA EDI Transactions
• Experience validating healthcare EDI transactions, including:
• 278 Prior Authorization
• 275 Attachments
• Experience using defect-tracking and test-management tools, including Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, TestRail, or comparable tools.
• Experience creating and maintaining testing metrics, quality dashboards, defect reports, risk assessments, and test-status reports.
• Strong technical-documentation skills, including the ability to produce clear test artifacts, defect reports, requirements-traceability documentation, and operational-support materials.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex software, integration, data, and production issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate test results, quality risks, and technical findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work directly with business users, healthcare end users, customer stakeholders, and cross-functional technical teams.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple testing activities, assignments, and deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to ensuring software quality, reliability, patient-data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to lead testing efforts, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior testers.
• Experience supporting production troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and verification of corrective actions.
• U.S. Citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense, or other Federal healthcare systems.
• Experience supporting VistA applications and testing FileMan database functionality.
• Experience testing enterprise applications that support clinical care, healthcare benefits, claims, enrollment, eligibility, or other healthcare operations.
• Experience supporting legacy applications and long-lived, mission-critical healthcare systems.
• ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, or comparable software-testing or quality-assurance certification.
• Experience working within Agile and Scrum development environments.
• Test-automation experience, including development or execution of automated test scripts and regression suites.
• SQL and database-validation experience.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted healthcare applications and cloud-based system integrations.
• Familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and release-validation activities.
• Experience supporting modernization initiatives involving legacy healthcare systems, interoperability platforms, or data-migration activities.
• Familiarity with Federal healthcare programs, healthcare regulations, and compliance requirements., * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field.
• Eight additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for formal education.
• A minimum of ten years of software testing, quality assurance, system validation, or related technical experience.
• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience testing enterprise applications that support clinical, benefits, or healthcare operations.
• Demonstrated experience supporting legacy applications and long-lived mission-critical systems.

HigherEchelon, Inc. (HE) is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) with offerings in Engineering, Gaming, Human Capital, Enterprise Technology and Cyber Solutions. HigherEchelon aims to be the premier trusted partner in organizational excellence and achieves this through sustained investment in talent and the employee experience. HigherEchelon puts the employee first to better serve customer needs and sustain excellence.

HigherEchelon offers competitive full-time benefits including paid vacation and holidays, 401(k) matching, full health/dental/vision coverage, plus much more. For on-site and remote employees, flexible work schedules are offered when authorized.

By joining our team, you are choosing to embark on a journey towards excellence as a valued team member and trusted partner. We appreciate your inquiry and look forward to discussing the opportunity further.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled:

HigherEchelon, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures.