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.  

A Quality Engineer focused on automation at Optum spends most days designing, building, and maintaining automated tests and test frameworks that ensure software products meet reliability and performance standards. They collaborate closely with other Optum developers and product managers to understand requirements, translate them into automated test cases, and integrate those tests into continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Daily work includes writing and refactoring test scripts, reviewing test results, investigating failures to distinguish defects from test issues, and improving test coverage and efficiency. They also monitor build health, help define quality metrics, and proactively enhance automation tools and processes to reduce manual testing effort and enable faster, more confident releases.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze and break down software requirements and technical specifications to design and execute comprehensive test strategies and software development.
• Write, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases
• Test applications and drive resolution of defects by collaborating closely with development teams
• Establish and maintain test cases, test suites, and test data
• Create and maintain test cases and test execution results in Rally
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using industry-standard frameworks such as Playwright, Cucumber, Selenium, or similar tools
• Perform REST API testing and validate backend services
• Review automated test code to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Continuously improve test automation frameworks, processes, and coverage
• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices in test automation and quality engineering Software Development
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following engineering best practices
• Contribute to unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development (TDD/BDD) practices
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to ensure code quality and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software in an agile environment
• Support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and integrate automated testing into build and deployment workflows Collaboration & Agile Practices
• Actively participate in walkthroughs, inspections, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with business users, system analysts, designers, and engineers to refine requirements and technical designs
• Plan, document, evaluate, and track testing and development results to ensure defect-free system applications
• Communicate effectively regarding defects, enhancements, risks, and technical decisions
• Follow Agile/Scrum standards and engineering best practices
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement  
• 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 in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience in REST API testing
• 4+ years of experience in functional, unit, and regression testing
• 3+ years of experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• 3+ years of experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• 3+ years of experience in software development and/or quality engineering, with strong exposure to automation testing
• 2+ years of experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, or similar
• 2+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• 2+ years of experience with GraphQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and cloud platforms

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.