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 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:

• 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 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:

• 10+ 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
• Proven solid analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, and automated quality gates
• Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, React JS, and Azure environments

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.