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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partners with development, DevOps, and operations team to develop and document test code to ensure applications meet business and technical requirements, and are of high quality
• Consults software engineering team, and dedicated SDET resources, in our digital transformation journey to better leverage DevSecOps, test-driven development and test automation best practices
• Key contributor and leader in review of QA standards, procedures, tools, and processes
• Reviews test automation practices and cases built by team to identify and address gaps
• Maintains automated regression suites/packages to be compliant with changing requirements and features
• Works with teams to promote shift-left testing methodology and bringing functional, and nonfunctional testing earlier in the development process
• Provides management updates, status reporting, and dashboards from a quality perspective to demonstrate product progress and process maturity
• 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:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in all types of testing including unit, integration, system, sanity, smoke, regression, acceptance, performance, load, stress, volume, security, and reliability/resiliency
• Experience with enterprise-level test automation tools and frameworks, including both open source and commercial products
• Prior experience leading a team of SDET professionals in a large organization
• Hands-on Java, Cucumber, Groovy, Selenium, Soap UI Pro, JMeter & LoadRunner experience
• Experience working in an off-shore/on-shore model
• Experience implementing quality engineering practices in a DevSecOps model
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and Agile methodology
• Proficiency in creating test strategies for large digital transformation initiatives
• Proven good communicator at all levels of the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• DevOps engineering background using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker
• Prior application development experience (Java SpringBoot microservices a plus)
• Experience using JIRA, Rally, and/or Confluence

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.