3M HIS Automation Engineer - Bethesda, MD Job Listing at 3M in Bethesda, MD

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Title: 3M HIS Automation Engineer - Bethesda, MD
Location: Maryland-Bethesda
3M HIS Automation Engineer – Bethesda, MD

For more than 100 years, 3M has been a company that delivers both sustainable growth and consistent results. Today is no exception. We are making great progress toward inventing a new future for 3M - a future of faster growth and increased competitiveness, while continuing to deliver superior results.

3M Health Information Systems, Inc., is the leader in providing healthcare funding and performance management solutions. With more than 5,000 customers, 3M Health Information Systems enables healthcare providers to enhance operations, shorten revenue cycle times, improve patient care and achieve an electronic health record solution.

Job Summary
· Build software to improve developer productivity, reduce risk, and achieve scale
· Create and extend automated testing frameworks
· Design and build automated tests that allow the whole team to move faster
· Deeply understand what is important to our business, and make good decisions about what to test, how deeply to test it, and the risks incurred by what we're not testing
· Implement and execute automated and manual test cases with a focus on validating complex business processes, work flow performance, migration, and regression testing
· Participate in the development of testing strategies to ensure product quality
· Develop and deliver verbal and written status reports
· Perform system quality assurance by executing test and assessment plans
· Report, document, and track resolutions for software issues identified in the QA process
· Participate in peer reviews of software design, with a particular focus on matching software functionality to user requirements
· Assist in the transfer of fully tested software into production, including the preparation and distribution of software and appropriate documentation to users
· Assist in the identification, selection, and implementation of software tools and technologies, and testing techniques and procedures that facilitates the SQA process

Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor's Degree
· Minimum 3 years software quality assurance experience
· Minimum 3 years software quality assurance automation experience

Preferred Qualifications
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
· Experience with automated and manual test case generation
· Experience writing test cases, test plans, use cases, and test strategy
· Experience in working with both technical and non-technical individuals in gathering information and communicating QA plans and initiatives
· Experience in software development testing, installation, implementation, and/or support of a distribution web application
· Experience with quality assurance and the full software development life cycle at a software company
· Experience with testing, Web, client - server, and distributed applications.
· Working knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages. The ability to read and understand code is a big plus
· Advanced User knowledge and experience in Windows and Unix environments is a plus
· Working knowledge of Unix commands language
· Experience with MySQL or similar database products. Ability to write complex queries
· Experience in technical writing to generate internal and/or external user documentation
· Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
· Must be a team player, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Attention to detail, and a commitment to quality work
· Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and documentation skills
· Must be a self starter; ability and initiative to handle increasing responsibility over time

Benefits Information:
This position is a 3MHISposition and is therefore not a 3M benefited position. The position is subject to the benefit package under 3MHISbenefits program. Details will be shared with you at the time of interview with the hiring manager.

Relocation:
No relocation available