Quality Consultant – SDET and Playwright

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. 

We are looking for a highly skilled SDET Lead to drive quality engineering across our products. The ideal candidate will have solid hands-on experience in test automation, framework development, and CI/CD integration, with a solid understanding of manual testing and modern technologies like GenAI.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, and API testing tools
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure high-quality releases
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Sauce Labs)
• Leverage GenAI tools to enhance test coverage and efficiency
• Perform manual testing when needed to validate complex scenarios
• Drive test strategy, planning, and execution across multiple projects
• 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:

• B.E. (Computer Engineering) or equivalent from reputed engineering colleges
• 6+ years of relevant software lifecycle experience specifically focusing on Automation Testing
• Hands-on experience of API & UI automation tests
• Technically hands-on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing
• Experience with Kubernetes & automated codable deployments
• Experience or knowledge Product/Project/Program Related Tech Stack:
  • Back End: Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, REST, AWS
  • Middleware: Kafka & its ecosystem, Cassandra/NoSQL
  • Testing: JUnit, Gatling , Playwright, Selenium
  • DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Sonar, Fortify
  • Others: JMeter, Groovy
  • Development Methodology/Engineering Practices Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN)
• Knowledge on REST and Spring Boot over any Cloud
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle
• Cassandra/any other No-SQL exposure
• Exposure to AWS services, Lambda & containerization
• Sound fundamentals of Core Java

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.