Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds. About the Role This position is responsible for supporting the Quality Management department with improvements through project planning, development and implementation, and the establishment of policies and procedures pertaining to regulations in both Government Programs and Commercial business. What You'll Do - Develop project initiatives, process and performance measures for Quality Management and deliverables to ensure positive outcomes defined by corporate objectives and NCQA and regulatory regulations. - Analyzes complex data and information to provide meaningful results, identifying success factors and improvement opportunities, recommending potential solutions to assist the business set strategic goals. - Responsible for budgeting, cost containment and strategic planning of systemic enhancements to improve the quality and efficiency of project initiatives and yearly interventions. - Collaboratively serve as a HCM&T divisional resource with the Manager for health plan quality ratings. - Interacts with internal and external stakeholders to promote HCM&T clinical and operational improvement activities. - Measure performance goals of Medicare STAR Program plans and initiatives to ensure effectiveness of process. Report findings to management and stakeholders as appropriate. - Reviews all HPMS and industry correspondence, related to Star Ratings in order to assist and remain current on all information and decision. Ensures that all information necessary for decision making is coordinated and any necessary documentation is prepared. - Provide Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) coaching to the Horizon providers community to improve the member experience. - Interprets member experience performance through various sources of data. - Assist in the development of provider improvement action plans to improve member experience and improve CAHPS performance. What You Bring Education/Experience: - High School Diploma/GED required. - Bachelor degree preferred or relevant experience in lieu of degree. - Requires five (5) years professional business experience working in a health care environment. - Prefer five (5) years managed care experience. Knowledge: - Requires knowledge of project management methodology. - Requires knowledge of healthcare management. - Requires working knowledge of PC and application software. - Requires knowledge of performance measurement and regulatory reporting. - SAS Coding experience strongly preferred. - HEDIS/Quality Initiative experience strongly preferred. - State Reporting experience strongly preferred. Skills and Abilities: - Requires the ability to apply project management methodologies and practices across multiple projects. - Requires comprehensive leadership and decision making ability. - Requires excellent analytical and problem solving skills. - Requires excellent verbal and written communications skills. - Require excellent presentation skills. Why Horizon? At Horizon, you’ll do meaningful work that directly improves lives—while being supported by a mission‑driven organization that values expertise, collaboration, and growth. We believe that when our people thrive, our communities do too. If you are passionate about making an impact, we’d love to hear from you! Salary Range: $97,800 - $133,455 ​This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes: - Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision) - Retirement Plans - Generous PTO - Incentive Plans - Wellness Programs - Paid Volunteer Time Off - Tuition Reimbursement Disclaimer: Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware. This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Special Process Supplier Quality Auditor Job Code: 35315 Job Location: Remote; East Coast Region Preferred Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off Job Description: The Supplier Quality Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of components and materials procured from external suppliers for aerospace manufacturing. This role involves collaborating with suppliers to establish and maintain quality standards, conducting thorough assessments and Special Process audits, implementing quality control processes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product quality and safety. Knowledge of Special Processing in multiple commodities required or a combination of e.g. but not limited to Heat Treating, Metal Joining, Coatings, Chemical Processing, Non-conventional Machining. Essential Functions: 1. Supplier Assessment and Qualification - Evaluate new and existing suppliers' capabilities, quality management systems, and adherence to corporate aerospace and or industry standard regulations to special processing requirements. - Conduct comprehensive supplier audits and assessments to verify compliance with quality requirements and specifications. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to qualify new suppliers and ensure they meet the stringent quality standards of the aerospace industry. 2. Quality Assurance and Control - Develop and implement quality control audit criteria, and execute supplier special processing audits to support product acceptance for incoming materials, components, and assemblies. - Perform thorough special process reviews and evaluations ensure compliance with aerospace processing specifications and standards. - Detect Special Processing audit check lists, log findings / discrepancies, coordinate effective Corrective and Preventative actions to closure in a timely manner. Monitor supplier performance through regular evaluations, statistical analysis, and root cause analysis of non-conformances for potential affects to special processing. 3. Continuous Improvement - Identify opportunities for special process audit improvements within the supply chain to enhance product quality, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. - Lead or participate in cross-functional teams to drive quality improvement projects and initiatives, leveraging tools such as Six Sigma and Lean methodologies. - Analyze quality data, trends, and metrics to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions to drive continuous quality improvement. - Provide training and support to suppliers on special process qualifications and approval, including internal AR methods process specifications, and or industry standards. 4. Regulatory Compliance - Ensure that suppliers comply with all relevant aerospace regulations, standards, and customer requirements, may include AS9100, and or NADCAP. - Stay informed about AR methods processing specification changes and industry standard updates affecting supplier quality management, ensuring timely implementation of necessary changes. - Support AR compliance audits and inspections by providing documentation, evidence of compliance, and assistance during AR Customer or AS9100 3rd party Registrar audits. - Travel may require in excess of 60% time away from remote office as assigned. - Become fluent with AR operating systems command media procedure, standard work as applied for Supply Chain Management. - Become fluent with multiple data base management systems for supplier continuity, and process related metrics. - Comply with time accounting directives and policy as a direct reporting employee. Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant quality experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related quality experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related quality experience. - Possess a valid state issued driver’s license Preferred Additional Skills: - Strong problem solving, RCCA and investigation experience. - Certified Quality Auditor strongly preferred and or Lead Auditor accreditation. - Prior Special Processing auditing experience - Experience with Nadcap eAuditNet and/or OASIS as applicable. - Fluent with MS Office Suite Software. - Effective verbal and written communication skills. - Ability to synthesize and analyze data from several sources and develop a plan to take action based upon the data. - Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within a close-knit team environment. In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Colorado State, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont and New York State is $84,000-$156,000. For California, Seattle, Washington D.C., Maryland Greater Washington D.C. area, the city of Denver, Washington State and New York City, the salary range for this role is $96,000 - $178,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. #LI-HJ1 #LIRemote

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint • Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout the project team and reflected within the QA assurance team and department. • Increase Velocity: Perform automated testing and API testing for complex applications and scenarios; locate and document edge cases; assess possible risks and propose modifications to the acceptance criteria. • Expand Frameworks: Demonstrate proficiency at automation, API testing, or accessibility testing principles and solutions. • Increase Velocity: Enhance the team's capacity by documenting plans to anticipated risks/blockers, advancing best practices, and mentoring peers. • Guide Development: Serve as a technical SME in the sprint, ensuring successful delivery of the sprint commitment by prioritizing testing efforts, enhancing acceptance criteria, etc. • Evaluate Skills: Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates for successful hiring/contracting. • Demonstrate Expertise: Present robust testing plans, metrics, and other valuable insights during sprint review meetings; propose solutions and improvements to clients that improve our ability to deliver value.

• Plan testing activities throughout the software project lifecycle, serving as the quality reference • Lead and manage quality processes and metrics • Perform exploratory and manual testing on the application • Design tests by identifying and creating test scenarios and scripts for automation • Define expected results for each test scenario and script • Manage test data • Execute defined test cases and scripts for the project • Identify, analyze and document software defects and failures • Identify and propose process improvements aimed at enhancing software quality