Healthcare Analytics QA Lead – Value-Based Care Platform

The Healthcare Analytics QA Lead will oversee end-to-end quality assurance for a healthcare analytics platform integrating clinical, claims, and payer data to support value-based care initiatives. This hands-on leadership role focuses on ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of operational dashboards and financial reporting. The successful candidate will take ownership of testing strategies, data validation, financial reconciliation, and client user acceptance testing (UAT). Working closely with technical teams, project stakeholders, and healthcare clients, they will identify defects, manage resolution processes, and ensure platform readiness for deployment. A key priority will be validating financial metrics against source claims data, with a strict reconciliation accuracy target of ±3%. This is an opportunity to contribute to a major healthcare analytics implementation within a collaborative, data-driven environment.

• At least 5 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance (QA) or software/data testing, including a minimum of 2 years leading testing activities for data analytics or Business Intelligence (BI) projects.

• Previous experience working with healthcare data, particularly claims, eligibility, payer, or Electronic Health Record (EHR) data.

• Strong SQL skills, with the ability to independently query, validate, reconcile, and investigate complex datasets.

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing test cases, validating data transformations, and identifying discrepancies between source data and reporting outputs.

• Hands-on experience managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinating client testers, and overseeing defect resolution.

• Experience using JIRA or comparable tools for test management, defect tracking, and requirements traceability.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.

• Strong understanding of healthcare analytics, data quality principles, and financial reconciliation methodologies.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with exceptional attention to detail and a methodical, numbers-driven approach to quality assurance.

• Ability to independently trace dashboard metrics through complex data pipelines and transformations to underlying source records.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical testing results, defects, and project risks into actionable recommendations for leadership.

• Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain strict testing timelines, and enforce established defect resolution standards.

• Comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively with technical teams, healthcare stakeholders, and external clients.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with value-based care analytics, particularly Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medicare Advantage, and total cost of care reporting.

• Previous experience testing Tableau dashboards and validating business intelligence reporting.

• Familiarity with Exasol or comparable analytical database platforms.

• Knowledge of healthcare quality measurement frameworks, including HEDIS and electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs).

• Experience supporting healthcare analytics implementations involving multiple data sources, including clinical, claims, and payer information.