Senior Quality Engineering Lead

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

What we offer:

• Impactful Work: You’ll be working on cutting-edge financial systems that revolutionize the way people save and pay for healthcare
• Growth Opportunities: You’ll be part of a dynamic team where your contributions will directly influence the success of our products and services, with ample opportunities for professional growth and development
• Great Team Environment: You’ll work in a supportive team environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead QA Initiatives: Take charge of QA efforts for a large financial system, including web portals, batch processes, and web services/APIs
• Collaborate and Communicate: Engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to discuss solutions, articulate issues, and negotiate trade-offs in a clear and concise manner
• Ensure Quality: Work closely with the development team to adopt established testing standards and practices, ensuring quality in all products and solutions
• Be the End-User Advocate: Design, execute, and maintain regression test suites with an end-user perspective
• Be the Go-To Expert: Serve as the functional point of contact for collaborating teams and stakeholders, developing effective solutions that meet end-user and client business requirements
• Support and Troubleshoot: Analyze and resolve production issues, including triaging data processing jobs and web applications
• Lead Deployments: Oversee QA efforts during production deployments and provide functional and non-functional sign-off on releases
• 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:

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience
• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience in an agile product development environment
• Technical Proficiency: Experience in testing web applications, batch jobs, and web services/APIs
• SQL Knowledge: Good working knowledge of SQL and understanding of relational data models
• CI/CD Expertise: Experience building, maintaining, and executing regression test suites to support CI/CD development
• Automation Skills: Proficiency with QA automation software and frameworks like Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Postman, SOAPUI, and test management software
• Communication Skills: Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize facts and findings into meaningful information
• Attention to Detail: Proven solid attention to detail, analytical mindset, and result-oriented approach to execution
• Organizational Skills: Proven ability to manage multiple tasks/projects and deadlines simultaneously with limited direction while exercising good judgment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Domain Experience: Experience in the banking, financial, or healthcare domain
• Cloud Knowledge: Experience in testing applications deployed on public cloud infrastructure

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.