Associate Quality Engineer II

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
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. Technology Quality roles will cover all primary quality activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver high quality products and services. These roles include, but are not limited to, strategy, planning, standards, process, policy, tools, engineering, assurance, management, metrics, research and development, automation, data preparation, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. Basic, structured, standard approach to work.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Overall regression automation and maintenance
• Communicate and interact efficiently with co-workers, management & customers
• Work with business analyst and programmers to create and analyze various required project documents
• Comply with standards and strategies of the software development life cycle
• Developing and executing comprehensive suites of test plans and test cases for system and integration testing, maintaining and continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression
• Work closely with Developers and other QA engineers to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Create, maintain and execute test plans and test cases, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participating in day to day QA Activities
• Well-Versed in leveraging AI tools and technologies-including Java, Python, Copilot, GenAI and NLP-to drive innovation and seamlessly integrate intelligent solutions into business processes
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• Proven experience with defect tracking applications
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• Associates Degree (or higher) OR 2+ years of Quality Engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with front-end and back-end Quality Engineering tools and methodologies
• 2+ years of experience with test automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Java), Maven, and Jenkins
• 2+ years of experience with defect tracking applications
• 2+ years of experience data testing SQL database query tools
• 2+ years of experience creating, designing, and executing comprehensive tests plans
• 2+ years of experience developing high level and detailed test strategy, test plans, test cases, test scripts, manual testing, test automation and defect tracking using various tools such as ALM, Jenkins and Jira, Java, Oracle, etc
• 2+ years of experience STLC and functionality, system, regression, integration, Prod-Like, E2E
• Real time experience with LLM based AI tools like AI-SME,Test Case Generator, GitHub Copilot, and SQL Generator for test planning, scripting, and execution
• Excellent knowledge of quality assurance principles, techniques and tools
• Ability to work Eastern or Central daytime hours

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.