Quality Consultant

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements for product enhancements and design robust, bug-proof test scenarios accordingly
• Review and provide feedback on test cases created by peers and junior team members to ensure test coverage and quality
• Automate functional and regression test scenarios using the existing Pytest-based automation framework
• Develop a deep understanding of the product’s business offerings and the specific scope of work within the assigned team
• Build test scenarios that account for detailed upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior QA engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables from both self and team
• Engage actively in grooming sessions and sprint planning calls to understand and contribute to requirement discussions
• Participate in production incident analysis and support rapid smoke testing for critical fixes
• Take initiative to improve and scale existing QE automation capabilities, driving continuous improvement within the team
• Demonstrate a solid inclination toward understanding evolving business needs, ensuring each requirement is well-understood and accurately translated into test coverage
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Quality Engineering with a focus on automation testing
• Solid understanding of software development and QA Methodologies
• Proven solid programming skills in Java or Python
• Proven excellent attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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