Principal QA Automation Engineer

UnitedHealth Group

Dublin
Permanent
Full-time

23 days ago

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.About the Role:
We are seeking an innovative hands-on Principal Quality Engineer to be an integral part of the design, build out and rollout of exciting new product and service solutions. You must be able to work with a wide range of resources: architects, technical analysts, developers, data engineers, managers and product owners to support rapid deployment and adoption activities in an Agile Scrum based methodology.Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Quality Engineer:

Serve as a Principal QA and Automation Engineer for the software platform ensuring software fully meets our stakeholder's quality expectations.
Design, Architect and oversee the overall strategy of QA Automation (test plans and test designs) for the entire software platform in conjunction with the QA Manager
Innovate and suggest changes to QA processes based on past experience.
Mentoring other QAs on how to apply established automation patterns and tools
Taking the lead on data side testing and establishing best practices
Leading key projects in the areas of performance testing, UI automation and API automation.
Identifying key QA metrics and implementing new reporting processes.
Key contributor in reviewing QA automation tools selection for all areas of the platform (both UI and backend APIs, functional and performance testing)
Design and oversee QA environment strategy and provisioning in order to maintain appropriate quality across all stakeholders
Communicate across tech and business segments.
Work across all team and evangelize QA Automation first approach.

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.Required Qualifications of the Principal Quality Engineer:

Undergraduate degree in IT field or equivalent experience
Working experience with one or more of the following test tools and frameworks: Selenium, Jmeter, Gatling, Spock, Source Labs , Pearcy, Puppeteer etc
Expertise in testing using Data Expectations for Data Quality purposes (experience using tools such as Databricks and/or Great Expectations would be highly preferred).
Experience in Software Development Testing (Unit testing, Acceptance Testing UI automation, API testing, Performance Testing)
Experience in researching and evaluating new QA automation tools and process
Experience setting up Testing Frameworks from scratch with the ability to determine and analyze various tools and concepts.
Ability to define, participate in high level testing strategy discussions.
Ability to organize and lead complex discussions around solutioning QA process and automation tools.
Knowledge of manual testing concepts such as exploratory testing
Strong experience working with cross-browser testing
Demonstrable experience working with relational (row and column store) databases as well as NoSQL databases
Experience working in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications of the Principal Quality Engineer:

Post Graduate degree in IT field or equivalent experience
External certification like ITQSB, CMSQ etc.
Demonstrable experience working with Big Data Warehouses (Modern Lakehouse), NoSQL and relational databases
Strong experience with integration testing using API (i.e., Rest / Graph), Service Bus (i.e. Kafka), Batch file copy via ETL (i.e. Azure Data Factory)
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure would be beneficial
Exposure to working in the healthcare industry
Knowledge and practical experience testing React.js and Java applications

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, click here.All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.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 marginalised 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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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