Part 4 - Iowa Medicaid Enterprise

RFP MED-12-001 | Technical ProposalIowa Medicaid Enterprise System Service Procurement | MMIS and Core MMIS Operations• Load and Stress Test. Verify the new MMIS meets all performance standards for response time andis able to process production level claims volumes; requires converted data.• Parallel Test. Verify the new MMIS is adjudicating and paying claims similarly to the legacy MMISsystems; requires converted data for claims history and production claim files.As the Department has requested a phased design, development, test, and implementation approach, eachphase will require separate environments. Figure 8-77 depicts the environments necessary to support asingle phase. As the task phases progress from development to test to implementation, additionalenvironments will be deployed, until the full range of environments become operational. Postimplementation, the environments may be tasked to support a maintenance development and testenvironment. Additionally, environments may be temporarily re-tasked for emergent releases or multipleconcurrent maintenance releases, as deemed necessary by the project team.Figure 8-77. Separate and Distinct Test Environments. As the task phases progress from development totest to implementation, additional environments will be deployed, until the full range of environmentsbecome operational.As a pre-requisite to completing any test phase, the environment must be prepared by the Team Noridian'ssystem infrastructure staff, including system and database administration staff, data conversion teams, andconfiguration management specialists. Having prepared the environment and prior to the start of testexecution, Team Noridian development and test team members will perform an environment readinessreview to ensure the environment has been properly installed, configured, and populated with valid testingdata. Some key points of verification are listed below:• eCAMS and required COTS software installed• Reference data is available• Partial converted data available, or data conforming to final specification created by testing teams, isavailable depending on the test phase (all phases)• Interface connectivity is verified (i.e., integration test, UAT, ORT)• Data synchronized between separate interfaced systems verified for each interface (integration)8 | 135