Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is the largest health insurer in the mid-Atlantic region, serving over three million members. They are offering a Systems Engineer Intern position for students to gain practical experience in healthcare information systems, focusing on software methodology and application development.
Responsibilities
- Obtain a working knowledge of CareFirst HealthCare processes
- Develop and test UI applications and ad hoc reports, identifying and resolving problems as they arise
- Analyze and translate Healthcare functional specifications and change requests into test cases
- Support all testing efforts (integration, functional, system, performance, UAT, etc) by attending weekly testing meetings, reviewing all defects, and fixing such defects as assigned
- If needed, participate in production support and monitoring activities for deployed applications
- Expand technical and business knowledge appropriate to team and section through reading, research, on-the-job training and classroom training
- Research emerging Gen AI technologies and recommend improvements
Skills
- Must be a student enrolled in an accredited college or university either junior or senior with a current GPA of 3.25 or above
- Majors include: Information Systems, Health Information Technology, Computer-Science or related field
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills organized and detail-oriented
- Experience using Microsoft Office Products
- Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
- Exposure to Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Analysis preferred but not required
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): SQL
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): Snowflake
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): Java or Python
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): Shell scripting
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): REST, HTTP/SOAP
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): GENAI / Agentic AI
- Technology (Exposure to 1 or more): Cloud & Platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP
Company Overview
CareFirst. It’s not just our name. It’s our promise. It was founded in 1934, and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://individual.carefirst.com.