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Job type full-time
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About the company:
Avalon healthcare solutions, headquartered in tampa, florida, is a clinical services and information technology company using evidence-based medicine to develop and deploy medical policies and protocols in the high-volume, dynamic and complex diagnostic lab environmentThe company manages the appropriate use of thousands of existing lab tests and researches new tests to determine efficacy and impact on patient care.
Studies show that 30% of clinical laboratory testing is unnecessary or overusedInappropriate testing or missing a key screening can lead to complications and expense arising from unwarranted care, or not obtaining proper care when needed, leading to increased health risks and costsAvalon helps ensure delivery of the right test, at the right time, and in the right settingWe seek to ensure the most effective patient treatment, improve clinical outcomes, and optimize cost and affordability.
Avalon is a portfolio company of francisco partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companiesSince its launch 15 years ago, fp has raised approximately $10 billion and invested in more than 150 companies.
Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a differenceYou will be part of a team that shapes a new market and businessYou’ll enjoy seeing the results of your work as we rapidly implement our planMost importantly, you will help avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.
For more about avalon, please visit our web site at http://www.avalonhcs.com.
About the qa lead position:
Avalon’s comprehensive model enhances lab care delivery by ensuring the right test at the right time in the right settingThe qa lead works to ensure successful client implementations by planning and coordinating all internal testing related activities and consulting and managing the client through collaborative integrated testing.
The qa lead will be a key member of the avalon core implementation team, focused primarily on client delivery, and in close contact with avalon it and business stakeholdersAn effective testing lead will have:
Extensive knowledge of health plan operations.
Strong technical background, with ability to generate test cases supporting avalon’s applications.
Strong project management skills: communications, organization, familiarity with agile and waterfall project delivery processes and tools.
Persistence, assertiveness, and a drive for continuous improvement.
Avalon healthcare solutions is based in tampa, floridaThis position is eligible for remote teleworkThis is a full-time, w-2 positionAt this time, we can consider only local candidates authorized to work in the usNo sponsorship is availableNo recruiter calls, please.
Qa lead - essential functions and responsibilities:
Experience supporting a variety of testing approaches, with the ability to independently generate appropriate test scenarios.
Query databases to analyze logs and generate test cases, with intermediate-level t-sql query skills.
Guide the client through testing strategy and test case development.
Coordinate client and avalon environment availability – security, data, connectivity, environment readiness and application provisioning.
Create/maintain all testing artifacts, including test plan, requirement traceability, defect management
Enhance implementation materials to support continuous improvement.
Qa lead - qualifications:
Minimum of eight years of it experience in some combination of testing, development and project management roles.
Healthcare industry experience – claims, remittance advice, eligibility and prior authorization knowledge is highly valued.
Insight into hipaa transaction processing on common adjudication platforms is preferred.
Comfort with api testing tools, e.gSoapui, postman.
Experience monitoring endpoints in a cloud-based environment with tools such as appdynamics.
Comfortable in a high-visibility, individual contributor role with the ability to work cross-functionally and with all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated ability to lead a team through problem solving and creative solutioning.
Demonstrated ability to deliver results while balancing competing priorities and timelines.
