QA Engineer - Test Data Management

Quality Systems, Inc. ("QSI") and its wholly-owned subsidiary, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. ("NextGen"), develop and provide computer-based practice management, medical records, and e-business applications for medical and dental group practices.

Mirth is looking for a talented experienced individual to join our QA team and head up our test data management needs. As a self-starter with minimal guidance you'll have the opportunity to work in the Healthcare domain putting your talents to use to help build a standard test database and test data for use among different teams (e.g., QA testers/analysts, developers, performance engineers, analytics, etc.) using existing customer data or building synthetic data to achieve maximum coverage for testing and development efforts.

* This role will be responsible for planning and creating production-like datasets for testing needs. You will participate in discovering, designing, extracting, masking/de-identifying existing data, developing, and maintaining test data using appropriate test data management tools and techniques. * To accomplish the above you will also be involved in recommending the appropriate tool(s) to accomplish this work to provide the right-sized, production-like, reusable test data for development and QA testing requirements/needs. * Focus specifically on maximizing test data reuse, data safety, initial state repeatability with any profiling, cataloging and versioning needed. * A solid knowledge of databases (particularly PostgreSQL), and de-identifying PHI data is necessary for this role. * Working with QA and developers and understanding their data needs for development and testing will be a key activity.

* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. * Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in developing test data management strategy, discovering test data by analysis of business flows, system integrations, data architectures, and data entities and relationships. * Minimum of five (5) years’ QA or development experience. * Experience validating production copy data to test systems. * Experience maintaining test data by refreshing, roll forward, roll back, aging, reset, archive and cleaning techniques. * Experience in data modeling, data development, and database administration. * Experience de-identifying and masking sensitive test data to meet security and privacy requirements. * Experience working with TDM tools and ETL tools (e.g., Pentaho, etc.). * Experience performing root cause analysis and resolving test data defects or issue of data loading and any downstream data impacts. * Well versed in data architecture, data development, test data management tool configuration and development, with a proven history of providing effective test data solutions. * Prior QA or development experience. * Prior Health Care industry experience is preferred, but not required. * Familiar with development trends for the Healthcare Industry and the landscape for the exchange of electronic health information. * Knowledge of HIE systems, workflows and integrated systems. * Knowledge of data transmission with HL7, CDM, CDA, etc.