Quality Engineer or Automation Testing Lead - Remote

** Requisition number:
** 2360055

** Job category:
** Optum Insight Consulting

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start 
** Caring. Connecting. Growing together.*
* Optum Advisory Services operates on the intersection of strategy, business operations, data and technology to help our clients realize exceptional business value.  We harness data and technology and use them to reimagine business transformations to design and architect solutions that help realize exceptional value for our clients.  We are uniquely positioned to accelerate the value proposition for our clients across the healthcare ecosystem with our unwavering focus on making health system work better for everyone.

The Quality Engineer / Automation Testing Lead will be a key technical resource during solution implementation and ongoing release delivery, ensuring quality is built into the software development lifecycle. The primary role of the QE / Automation Lead is to define test strategy and quality standards, design and implement test automation frameworks, and lead execution across functional, integration, regression, and non-functional testing to ensure solutions meet business, performance, and compliance expectations.

The technical domain of the QE / Automation Lead includes test planning, automation engineering, test data management, CI/CD quality gates, defect triage, environment coordination, and support of system and integration testing.

We are looking for a passionate professional preferably with more than 3+ years of experience in cloud implementations. This individual should be self-driven with an ownership mindset and self-motivated to continuously learn and invest in personal development as well as keep abreast of leading-edge cloud and data management technologies in the industry.

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 a minimum of four days per week.

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* Primary Responsibilities:

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* + Provide technical leadership in quality engineering and test automation for modernization initiatives, including defining test strategy, automation approach, and quality metrics aligned to business outcomes

+ Self-driven, ownership mindset to navigate ambiguity, identify options to resolve constraints, mitigate implementation risks and define solutions to implementation challenges with minimal supervision

+ As part of the data management solution, implement appropriate data access and security patterns in alignment with appropriate regulatory and compliance standards such as HIPAA, PHI, PII, locational data restrictions, contractual, etc.

+ Build partnership and rapport with client technical resources by demonstrating solid written and verbal communication, presentation, analytical and interpersonal skills

+ Ability to work closely with Business Analysts and SMEs to understand business requirements

+ Ability to work in a matrixed team environment with distributed responsibility across different teams

+ Create Process Flows using diagraming tools like Visio and Omni Graffle

+ Establish and maintain automation frameworks and standards (e.g., UI, API, and data-layer automation) to enable repeatable, scalable regression testing

+ Create and maintain test plans, traceability, and coverage across requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria; define entry/exit criteria and risk-based testing approach

+ Define and coordinate test data management and environment readiness, including synthetic data approaches and controls appropriate for HIPAA/PHI/PII

+ Lead non-functional testing strategy and execution (performance, reliability, accessibility, and basic security validation as…