Software Test Manager
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Job Description
Work Location
100% On-site
Office Location: 4601 W. Guadalupe, Texas 78751
Candidates must be local to Austin, TX or surrounding areas.**
Job Description
We are currently seeking a contract Software Test Manager to be a key resource on a technical services team for our client, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).
Responsibilities
The role of the software test manager is to lead the testing team. Test Manager plays a central role in the Team. The Test Manager takes full responsibility for the project''s success. The role involves quality & test advocacy, resource planning & management, and resolution of issues that impede the testing effort..
Job Summary
The QA Lead will provide overall leadership for quality assurance strategy, planning, execution, and governance for a large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) SaaS implementation. This position requires strong experience in healthcare application testing, data migration validation, ETL testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) support, defect management, vendor coordination, and stakeholder reporting. The ideal candidate will ensure that EHR workflows, data conversion activities, SaaS configuration changes, interfaces, and vendor releases meet business, clinical, regulatory, audit, and project delivery standards.
The QA Lead will work independently with minimal supervision while coordinating closely with program leadership, IT teams, vendors, and business users. This role will help ensure the solution meets functional requirements, data integrity standards, security and privacy regulations, and applicable compliance mandates.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall QA strategy, planning, and execution for the EHR SaaS implementation.
- Develop and maintain QA governance, testing approach, schedules, and resource plans.
- Serve as the primary QA point of contact for program leadership, IT teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Provide regular reporting on testing status, risks, metrics, and defects to project management and stakeholders.
- Ensure defects and issues are tracked, prioritized, resolved, retested, and validated before deployment.
- Lead validation testing for data migration and conversion 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 mapping documents, validation rules, and reconciliation reports
- Conduct pre-load and post-load validation, record counts, field-level verification, and exception analysis.
- Coordinate testing of interfaces, inbound/outbound data feeds, and downstream reporting impacts
- Lead functional testing across EHR modules, including clinical, scheduling, orders, medications, documentation, and billing.
- Validate end-to-end workflows across user roles, including clinicians, nurses, pharmacy, registration, and administrative staff.
- Ensure workflows align with business, clinical, and regulatory requirements
- Execute and oversee system testing, integration testing, regression testing, and UAT support
- Ensure SaaS configuration changes and vendor releases are fully tested
- Partner with business and clinical SMEs to prepare UAT scenarios and test cases
- Support and guide UAT execution, defect triage, and sign-off activities. Create and maintain test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and test evidence
- Track defects and test execution using testing tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, ALM, Jira)
- Support manual and automated testing approaches where applicable
- Ensure documentation meets audit, compliance, and project delivery standards
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements: | ||
Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
11 | Required | Years of experience in QA/Test Lead or QA/Test Manager roles |
11 | Required | Hands-on experience with data validation, data migration, and ETL testing. |
11 | Required | Experience leading functional testing across EHR modules, including clinical, scheduling, orders, medications, documentation, and billing, with validation of end-to-end workflows across clinical and administrative roles. |
11 | Required | Experience leading validation testing for data migration and conversion from legacy EHR and ancillary systems, including validation of patient, clinical, pharmacy, billing, and historical records for accuracy, completeness, and reconciliation. |
11 | Required | Experience in ensuring SaaS configuration changes and vendor releases is fully tested |
11 | Required | Coordinating testing of interfaces, inbound/outbound data feeds, and downstream reporting impacts. |
11 | Required | Creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and test evidence. |
11 | Required | Coordinating testing activities with vendors and multidisciplinary teams. |
11 | Required | Proficiency with test management tools such as Azure DevOps, ALM, or Jira. |
11 | Required | Create and maintain test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, and test evidence |
6 | Preferred | Prior experience with EHR implementations (clinical, pharmacy, billing workflows) |
6 | Preferred | Knowledge of healthcare data standards such as HL7, FHIR, CCD/A, ICD, and CPT, as applicable. |
6 | Preferred | Understanding of HIPAA, privacy, security, and government healthcare compliance requirements. |
6 | Preferred | Experience supporting state or public sector healthcare systems |
Company Overview
Allied Consultants has been contracted with the Texas State Government for 34 years, we are a Top Ten ranked vendor, and premier provider of technical and business staffing solutions. Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan. Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check. Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
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