UAT Business Subject Matter Expert (15+ years exp required)

Tasks:

• Contractor s Key Person shall:
• Review and analyze project requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria for clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Maintain and update the requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Create, update, and maintain UAT test cases, scenarios, test data, and test suites.
• Contribute to UAT test plans outlining testing scope, approach, environments, schedule, resources, and risks.
• Execute manual UAT test cases and document detailed results, including evidence, discrepancies, and validation outcomes.
• Participate in test case review sessions and identify automation candidates for collaboration with automation engineers.
• Support regression testing and verify defect fixes to ensure system stability.
• Support exploratory testing, targeted bug hunts, and adhoc validation activities.
• Log defects with clear reproduction steps, supporting documentation, and expected behavior; retest defects and confirm resolution. Using JIRA as provided by GI for logging defects.
• Perform or support integration testing across systems, APIs, services, and interfaces affecting Marketplace operations.
• Contribute to or support load, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Prepare, request, or curate test data required for UAT cycles.
• Validate UAT readiness including requirements, environments, tools, and data availability.
• Participate in defect triage, contributing to assessments of priority, severity, and business impact.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and support to business SMEs participating in UAT.
• Develop and maintain UAT best practices, documentation, templates, and training materials.
• Provide daily/weekly test metrics, summaries, and progress updates to program leadership.
• Fully participate in Scrum ceremonies (If applicable) including planning, refinement, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to release readiness assessments and go/nogo recommendations.
• Learn and apply basic automation concepts and collaborate with automation engineers where applicable.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities for UAT processes, tools, and crossteam collaboration.
• Serve as a Business SME Tester responsible for validating system behavior from an endtoend business perspective.
• Develop user acceptance test cases,
• Execute testing
• Ensure that system outputs align with Marketplace policy, operational workflows, and federal and state regulations.

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Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong understanding of UAT methodologies, SDLC, and Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Ability to analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into effective test cases.
• Experience designing and executing complex test scenarios.
• Proficiency using test management and defect tracking tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to prioritize work, manage time effectively, and operate with limited supervision.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG), security testing fundamentals, and performance considerations.
• Ability to identify risks and propose mitigation strategies.
  Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Marketplace domain expertise:

• Deep understanding of Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) operations, including differences between SBMs and SBMFPs.
• Experience supporting Oregon s current SBMFP environment and the ability to translate that knowledge to the upcoming SBM model.
• Strong knowledge of ACA Marketplace policy, including eligibility, enrollment, plan management, account transfers, redeterminations, and consumer assistance.
• Advanced understanding of Marketplace interactions with state Medicaid systems, including MAGI rules, account transfers, coordinated eligibility, and data exchange requirements.
• Understanding of Marketplace impacts on carriers, assister programs, enrollment partners, and call center operations.
• Ability to convert Marketplace policy, CMS guidance, and regulatory requirements into system rules, business logic, and UAT test scenarios.

In addition, the ideal candidate will have skills and experience in: