Remote QA Analyst — VA PII/Privacy & VistA Testing

VetsEZ; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with Matching

Corporate Laptop

PTO + Federal Holidays

Training opportunities

Remote opportunity

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to support testing and software quality activities for a VA initiative focused on removing SSNs from VistA applications. The role includes manual and automated testing, validating data handling, and ensuring compliance with privacy requirements.

The project spans ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, and VistA Audit Solutions, with opportunities to collaborate across teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and contribute to quality improvements while

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software quality assurance or software testing.
• Experience developing and executing software test cases and test scripts.
• Experience documenting and tracking software defects.
• Experience performing functional and regression testing within enterprise software environments.
• Experience collaborating with developers and Business Analysts throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs to identify testing needs.
• Develop detailed test cases, test scripts, scenarios, and test data supporting project requirements.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and User Acceptance Testing across impacted VistA packages.
• Validate removal or replacement of SSN data within workflows, user interfaces, reports, audit records, and related processes.
• Verify appropriate implementation of enterprise identifiers and expected application behavior.
• Perform manual and, where applicable, automated testing.
• Clearly document software defects, unexpected behavior, and test failures.
• Track defects through investigation, correction, retesting, and closure.
• Collaborate with developers and Business Analysts to reproduce issues and validate resolutions.
• Participate in defect triage and provide information regarding defect severity, impact, and reproducibility.
• Validate that implemented functionality meets documented business, technical, privacy, and security requirements.
• Support testing associated with PII/PHI protection and applicable NIST control requirements.
• Maintain traceability between project requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and results.
• Identify gaps in test coverage and recommend improvements to QA processes.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Collaborate with the QA Lead, developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Communicate testing progress, defects, risks, and impediments to the QA Lead and project team.

Skills

Software quality assurance

Test case development

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Health Informatics

Tools

Automated testing tools

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to support testing and software quality activities for a VA initiative focused on removing SSNs from VistA applications. The role includes manual and automated testing, validating data handling, and ensuring compliance with privacy requirements.

The project spans ADT, PCE, AICS, Record Tracking, and VistA Audit Solutions, with opportunities to collaborate across teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and contribute to quality improvements while