Sr. Software QA Analyst
San Francisco, California, VirginiaSuccess Profile
What makes a successful Sr. Software QA Analyst? Here are the top traits.
- Conceptual
- Proactive
- Problem-Solver
- Strategic
- Technologically Savvy
- Visual Thinker
Culture

Accomplish
Make a meaningful impact by using your problem-solving skills to push the boundaries of innovation in healthcare, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Innovate
Foster a digital mindset to drive IT transformation across McKesson through our evolving data and technology tools.

Grow
Join a supportive environment where you can advance your career and develop both personally and professionally.
Benefits
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Coverage you can rely on
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Health Spending Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
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Benefits that go beyond your base pay
- 401(k) (U.S.)
- Pension (Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Support for total well-being
- Mental Health Programs
- Flexible Schedules
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
- Education Reimbursement
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Flexible Work Environment
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Responsibility
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.
What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.
Sr. QA Engineer (P4)
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.
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Position Description
The Sr. Software QA Analyst will be responsible for performance and automated testing for assigned products and their associated releases, including scripting and maintaining performance and automation scripts using multiple QA tools.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and mentor a cross-functional QA team, consisting of both offshore and onshore engineers, ensuring alignment in goals and efficient collaboration.
Coordinate daily operations between offshore and onshore teams, ensuring smooth execution of testing processes, delivery timelines, and high-quality results.
Set clear goals and performance metrics for the team, regularly tracking progress and providing constructive feedback.
Serve as an advisor to development teams on enhancing performance.
Design and maintain automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, TestNG, Maven) to enable efficient test script development, execution, and reporting.
Develop and implement a comprehensive test automation strategy, ensuring efficient and scalable test coverage for both functional and non-functional requirements.
Collaborate with Product Owner to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria
Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated tests into the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, ensuring early detection of issues in the development cycle.
Oversee the execution of automated tests, ensuring that functional, regression, and integration tests are conducted thoroughly and efficiently.
Design and lead performance testing initiatives to assess system performance, scalability, and reliability under varying conditions using tools like Neo-Load, JMeter, LoadRunner etc.
Define performance testing requirements and create performance test plans to simulate real-world scenarios, including load, stress, and endurance testing.
Develop and acquire performance testing tools and frameworks and implement test software for acceptance.
Track and report defectsidentified through automated and performance testing, working closely with development teams to ensure timely resolution.
Collaborate with squad members to define iteration plans and squad commitments, and achieve them
Validate deployments to various environments
Ensure compliance with HIPAA and other regulations
Requirements and skills
Advanced proficiency in Java: Deep knowledge of Java programming language, including core concepts (e.g., OOP, collections, exception handling, multithreading, etc.).
Strong coding skills: Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for test automation frameworks.
Creating robust automation frameworks: Ability to design and implement test automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver for functional, regression, and smoke tests.
Advanced TestNG expertise: Proficient in using TestNG for running and organizing test cases, setting up test configurations, and generating reports.
Parallel execution and test configuration: Ability to configure parallel test execution, manage test dependencies, and handle multiple test suites in a scalable way.
Maven for dependency management and build automation: Strong knowledge of Maven to manage project dependencies, automate build processes, and integrate with CI tools.
Version Control: Deep understanding of Git for version control, including branching, merging, rebasing, and resolving conflicts. Ability to work with Git repositories efficiently (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
Jenkins integration: Proficient in integrating Jenkins with automation testing frameworks to implement Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).
Jenkins pipelines: Ability to create and manage Jenkins pipelines for automation test execution, build and deployment processes, and handling various environments.
Test automation strategy: Ability to create and implement test automation strategies, aligning them with project goals, quality standards, and release cycles.
Experience with Load Testing: Understand how to set up, execute, and analyze performance tests with NeoLoad.
Monitoring & Metrics Analysis: Skills in identifying and analyzing system bottlenecks (e.g., CPU, memory, response times).
API Testing: Advanced knowledge of API testing using Postman, including the creation of collections, sending requests, and validating responses.
APIAutomation: Proficiency in automating API tests and execute them as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
SQL Query Writing: Proficient in writing complex SQL queries to validate data in the database.
Database Testing: Experience with performance monitoring of database servers
Test Management: Experience in working with different test management tools and processes.
Test Case Documentation: Creating comprehensive test case documentation with relevant information like preconditions, test steps, expected results, and postconditions.
Test Coverage: Reporting on test coverage, identifying gaps, and ensuring adequate testing for all critical paths, edge cases, and user scenarios.
Additional Skills:
Experience in Leading Onsite and Offshore teams
Good client-facing and internal communication skills
Good written and verbal communication skills
Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
Experience in the Healthcare software / compliance solutions is a plus
Experience with another tools for monitoring and triage (Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace)
Good analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, the ability to see the root of the problem and come up with efficient and creative, and solutions.
Minimum Requirements:
Minimum 7 years’ experience in software quality assurance
Minimum 7 years’ experience developing performance and automated UI and API test cases.
Education:
4-year Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering degree preferred
Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role.
We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$121,800 - $203,000McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
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