Software Test Manager

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Software Tester Manager to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

 

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
  • Life insurance
  • A 401(K) plan with company match
  • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

 

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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 SummaryThe 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:Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

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