QA Automation Engineer
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform feasibility analyzes to determine automation needs based on existing testing capabilities
- Estimate automation projects and build a business case for automation
- Lead an automation project from conceptualization to implementation
- Enforce adoption of automation best practices throughout the testing SDLC
- Be familiar with automation technologies, tools and best practices and act as a thought leader for automation efforts across the organization
- Coordination of Quality Assurance offshore / onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative
- Work concurrently on several projects, each with specific instructions that may differ from project to project
- Ensure that quality processes are carried out through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Work with business partners, systems analyst, designers and programmers to create/analyze required project documents and produce quality assurance/testing related deliverables (test strategy, test plans, test scenarios/cases, testing project plans, execution metrics, etc) for a complex multi-interface enterprise application.
- Participate in analysis and design walkthroughs, as well as project meetings
- Estimate quality assurance effort on approved projects
- Manage towards results, by process, with facts and with continuous process improvement in mind
- Work with others through coaching and mentoring to ensure tasks are completed on time
- Work with project team to identify risks if quality assurance process is not followed
- Ensure process improvements are documented and incorporated in the quality assurance process
What makes your technology career greater with UnitedHealth Group? You'll have the most opportunities to grow and develop. We invest in rich technology resources and talented people to help glean and use intelligence in ways that drive quality and affordability of healthcare for millions of people worldwide. It's your chance to be a transformational force in the industry and within UnitedHealth Group. If you believe there is always a better way, take the next step in exploring your potential with UnitedHealth Group.
UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise. Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of IT quality assurance lead experience with all phases of testing (test planning, data setup/management, execution, validation, results review) in context of system/functional, integration, end-to-end, user-acceptance and performance testing
- 4+ years of testing automation knowledge and experience using tools like Quality Center and Quick Test Pro (or similar automation framework for testing) and best practices for using these tools.
- 4+ years experience leading onsite-offshore teams
- 3+ years of test estimation, resource planning, demand-capacity management and release planning experience
- 3+ years experience building and managing project plans with focus on testing phases and dependencies
- Bachelor's Degree
Assets:
- Healthcare experience
- Facets experience
- Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
