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Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

About the Role:

We are seeking an innovative hands-on Senior 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 Senior Quality Engineer:

• Serve as a lead QA and Automation Engineer for the software platform ensuring software fully meets our stakeholder’s quality expectations

• Designing and overseeing the overall strategy of QA Automation (test plans and test designs) for the entire software platform

• Applying established vision of automated QA processes via hands-on work across all areas of development.

• Mentoring other QAs on how to apply established automation patterns and tools

• Solving the most difficult aspect of QA automation.

• Defining defect lifecycle process, establishing processes, identifying dashboard and metrics that will need to be maintained to provide insights into the platform’s overall quality (injection rate, escape rate, test coverage rates, etc.)

• 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

• 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 Senior 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 setting up Testing Frameworks from scratch with the ability to determine and analyze various tools and concepts.

• Ability to participate in high level testing strategy discussions

• 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 Senior 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.

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.

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.