Senior QA Engineer - AI-Driven Healthcare Testing

UnitedHealth Group; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Philippines is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure secure, reliable software across the product lifecycle and collaborate with engineers, PMs, analysts, and DevOps to embed quality from requirements through production.

You will combine traditional QA with AI-assisted testing and test automation, design test strategies, validate APIs, databases, and end-to-end workflows, and support compliant healthcare software releases in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering.
• Experience with manual testing methodologies and test design techniques.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools and AI-enabled quality practices.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman, Wireshark or similar.
• Understanding relational databases and SQL.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, web technologies, and client-server architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and source control systems (Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, etc)
• Proven solid analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Proven excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own quality for features and initiatives from requirements through production deployment.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test suites.
• Create test strategies, test plans, and test cases based on business, technical, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with developers to define acceptance criteria and ensure testability of solutions.
• Validate functionality, integration, regression, usability, performance, accessibility, and security requirements.
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC, promoting shift-left quality practices.
• Leverage AI-powered testing tools to accelerate test creation, coverage analysis, defect detection, and exploratory testing.
• Perform API, database, and end-to-end workflow validation.
• Analyze defects, troubleshoot complex issues, and collaborate with engineering teams on root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and quality gates to ensure reliable software releases.
• Support validation and verification activities for regulated healthcare and medical device software.
• Monitor production quality metrics and participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with organizational quality standards, industry regulations, and healthcare best practices.

Skills

AI-assisted testing

API testing

SDLC/STLC understanding

English communication

CI/CD concepts

Education

Bachelors degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Postman

Wireshark

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

SQL

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Philippines is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure secure, reliable software across the product lifecycle and collaborate with engineers, PMs, analysts, and DevOps to embed quality from requirements through production.

You will combine traditional QA with AI-assisted testing and test automation, design test strategies, validate APIs, databases, and end-to-end workflows, and support compliant healthcare software releases in a fast-paced environment.