Test Analyst
Cognizant
Key Responsibilities
- Develop comprehensive test plans and reusable test cases for payer domain workflows in Facets, ensuring robust coverage of enrollment, claims, adjudication, billing, and provider management scenarios.
- Execute functional, integration, and regression test cycles for Facets-based payer platforms, validating core payer processes.
- Perform thorough defect management activities: logging, classifying, and tracking issues across their lifecycle.
- Collaborate with business analysts and configuration teams to refine testable requirements for payer systems.
- Create and maintain structured test data sets aligned to payer domain needs, including member, provider, and claim records.
- Conduct impact analysis on change requests and system updates in Facets, determining affected modules and defining targeted regression suites.
- Use test management tools to plan sprints, track execution progress, and provide status dashboards.
- Review test results and defect trends to identify quality risks.
- Partner with development and configuration engineers to replicate issues, clarify expected behavior, and validate fixes.
- Document test artifacts including plans, cases, traceability matrices, and closure reports.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of test processes by proposing enhancements in test strategy, automation readiness, and standards for Facets-based payer implementations.
- Align testing activities with organizational quality objectives.
- Support hybrid work practices by maintaining clear communication, organized documentation, and reliable status updates.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in test and defect management, owning test cycles end-to-end.
- Strong skills in test strategy development, defining scope, approach, and risk-based prioritization.
- Practical expertise in Facets configuration and processing flows to design meaningful test scenarios.
- Deep understanding of payer domain concepts such as benefits, authorizations, claims, capitation, and provider networks.
- Proficiency in using enterprise test management tools and defect tracking platforms.
- Capability to interpret functional specifications and mapping documents, transforming them into clear test cases.
- Prefer exposure to related healthcare technologies and data standards that interact with Facets.














