Senior Quality Engineer

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:

• Develops and maintains automation test suites
• Executes tests and provides reporting/metrics data
• Collaborates with team to establish automation testing architecture and design standards
• Advocates for pioneering approaches to testing automation
• Participates in the daily stand up meetings and other related Scrum Agile ceremonies
• Identifies and mitigates risks/issues related to throughput for automation
• Translates highly complex requirements into clear and concise testing scenarios
• Manually tests enhancements or defects as needed for inclusion into the bi-weekly releases
• Develops detailed test cases/test scripts for testing needs
• Perform test data conditioning, functional testing, regression testing and testing validation
• Manage testing process/workflow to ensure that timelines and deliverables are met
• Proactively identify and communicate issues as they arise
• Contribute to process improvement while establishing best practices for testing
• Ensure compliance with applicable testing standards and best practices
• Participate in Release checkout as needed
• Participates in scrum backlog grooming
• Collaborates with team to provide status of stories
• Drive timely resolution of defects to meet release criteria
• Works with many cross functional teams to prepare for automation installation and updates

• Work productively and effectively with minimal oversight

• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of IT quality assurance and systems or application testing experience
• 3+ years of experience with Test Management Tools
• 3 years of experience with Agile Scrum methodology
• 3+ years of experience with supporting test automation
• Experience with Rally
• Experience with creating and implementing automation framework and scalability of such framework that supports future automation growth
• Experience working on system/engineering/process improvements to drive efficiencies and higher quality
• Solid knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a Quality role
• Broad business approach and deep understanding of software automation, quality practices and SDLC
• Proven functional SME with automation concepts and tools (AccelQ)
• Proven excellent communication skills - verbal and written

Preferred Qualification:

• Java Full stack Knowledge

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