QA Data Analyst - Business Intelligence Solutions

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.

In this role, you'll help ensure the quality, accuracy and reliability of reporting applications and customer-facing insights. You'll partner closely with BI Engineers and business stakeholders, support testing and validation activities, and contribute to solutions that make complex data easier to understand and use.

If you're curious, detail-oriented and excited by the opportunity to work with modern BI tools, data platforms and healthcare-focused solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

What you'll do:

• Support BI Engineers in the development of reporting applications and customer-facing reports
• Validate new or enhanced technical developments and work closely with BI Engineers to achieve quality and accuracy
• Data validation and testing, collaborating with colleagues and resolving data issues in a timely manner
• Work closely with business to gather and finalize requirements, business documents, or user stories
• Design, build, and maintain architecture pertaining to data validation and QA automation
• Load data and be able to create user friendly views, providing technical solutions
• Responsible for maintaining existing data load process building blocks and customizations
• Demonstrate data literacy and be resourceful in terms of understanding Medicare overall, STAR measures, gap closures and claims
• Learn about the products, share ideas and be able to train or influence other team members

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field
• Proven experience working with relational data and SQL programming, including SQL Server, Teradata, or similar databases
• Proven experience in a QA role, including testing, analyzing, and validating data
• Proven experience in data processing involving movement across platforms such as SQL, Snowflake, or Hive, and working with text files and other data sources
• Demonstrated experience working with business intelligence solutions and architecture, including Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
• Demonstrated experience working within the software development lifecycle, including business requirements, technical documentation, and quality assurance
• Demonstrated ability to independently understand data structures within physical tables or views, and to create or enhance stored procedures or functions supporting reporting and data interfaces
• Proven ability to develop and manage multiple projects with minimal direction and supervision
• Demonstrated ability to perform system investigation, reverse engineering, and new development while adhering to development standards and change control practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience working with Python and Snowflake
• Proven experience within healthcare, financial services, or insurance industries
• Proven experience automating ETL processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. healthcare and Medicare
• Demonstrated solid communication skills, with experience presenting ideas and solutions to business stakeholders

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.  

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.


Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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