Senior 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 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.

An EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) QE (Quality Engineer) professional is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and quality of data within the data warehouse environment. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. The Technology Quality Function is reserved for those positions where Quality is the primary objective of the work delivered.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office for a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Validating ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)

* Processes using AI tools

* Verifying source-to-target data mappings

* Testing data transformations

* Leveraging AI CoPilot, Python ensuring that reports and dashboards reflect accurate business information

* Collaborate closely with data engineers, business analysts, and developers to identify data issues, create comprehensive test plans and test cases, and support defect resolution throughout the development lifecycle

* Technology Quality roles will cover all primary quality activity across all technological functions that ensure we deliver high quality products and services

* Strategy, planning, standards, process, policy, tools, engineering, assurance, management, metrics, research and development, automation, data preparation, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery

* Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed, Works with less structured, more complex issues, Serves as a resource for others

* AI Builder Persona:
Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation and who designs, delivers AI solutions, platforms and automations at scale in their daily work

* Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, reviews, and user group meetings for quality assurance

* Develop test cases and prioritize testing activities, validate ETL process

* Execute all the test cases and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect

* Carry out regression testing every time changes are made to the code to fix defects

* Prepare the status report for testing activities

* Mentor and direct other testers in automation and software engineering principles

* Develop in-depth system and application knowledge to provide higher test quality and coverage

* Constantly evaluate and enhance the test automation strategy and approach

* Collaborate as part of the scrum team in grooming user stories and development of acceptance criteria for the user stories

* Share and communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to staff, business sponsors, managers, and technical resources in clear concise language that is appropriate to the target audience

* Participate in communities of practice to share knowledge, learn, and innovate

* Research and implement tools that support faster delivery with high quality

* Reviews the work of other testers, and work as mentor per need and develop innovative approaches

* Test Manager in past has led the adoption of LLM-powered AI agents to automate EDW testing, generating test cases, validating pipelines, and detecting anomalies. This has cut manual effort, boosted coverage, and speed up releases

* Strong Understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold data architecture in modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse)

* Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI

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

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree

* 7+ years of accomplished experience in software testing

* 5+ years of experience working as Backend, Database, Data warehouse migration, ETL tester

* 5+ years of excellent SQL skills and experience working with any one RDBMS

* 5+ years of experience in UI, smoke, E2E and integration testing

* 5+ years of excellent Test Design skills and experience working with any one Test Management tool

* 5+ years of experience with preparation of test plan and…