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 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.

Lead quality engineering efforts for modern healthcare applications, data platforms, and AI-powered solutions. This role is responsible for defining and executing comprehensive testing strategies across web applications, APIs, data platforms, and GenAI/NLP capabilities while ensuring high standards for quality, performance, security, and compliance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and execute manual and automated testing strategies across full-stack applications, APIs, data pipelines, and analytics platforms
• Validate NLP/GenAI use cases, including natural language query interpretation, response accuracy, relevance, grounding, and edge-case handling
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Perform database testing across Snowflake and related data platforms, including data validation, transformation testing, lineage verification, and reconciliation
• Lead performance, scalability, and load testing to ensure platform reliability under production workloads
• Conduct security and vulnerability testing, partnering with engineering teams to remediate risks and ensure compliance with enterprise standards
• Collaborate closely with developers, data engineers, product owners, and architects to improve product quality throughout the SDLC
• Support audit, compliance, and validation activities required for healthcare and regulated environments
• Establish quality metrics, test reporting, and continuous improvement practices
• 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:

• 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Test Automation
• Experience testing AI/ML or NLP-driven applications, including validation of prompts, queries, responses, and business outcomes
• Experience with performance, load, and stress testing tools and methodologies
• Experience with security testing, vulnerability assessment, and secure SDLC practices
• Solid expertise in test automation, API testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks
• Solid knowledge of SQL, database testing, and data validation techniques
• Demonstrated solid analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on Quality Engineering leader who can combine automation, AI/NLP validation, database testing, performance engineering, and security testing to ensure reliable, compliant, and high-quality healthcare technology solutions
• Experience with Snowflake, DBT, and modern cloud data platforms
• Experience testing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Healthcare domain experience, particularly within regulated and compliance-focused environments
• Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, React JS, and Azure environments
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, and automated quality gates

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.