Lead QA Engineer - Remote Medicaid Clinical Platforms

Humana; Kentucky; Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA strategy for Medicaid Clinical platforms and integrations. You will lead a testers team, establish scalable testing processes, and advance automation across functional, regression, integration, configuration, and production validation testing.

You will communicate testing progress and quality considerations to management and executives, while coaching team members and shaping testing standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software quality assurance or related field.
• 2-3 years creating, reviewing, executing, and validating test cases and test scenarios.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test suites.
• Experience with defect identification, documentation, triage, retesting, and resolution.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience leading functional, regression, integration, and configuration testing.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, establish scalable processes, and exercise independent judgment with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of testers by establishing priorities, responsibilities, and accountability for testing deliverables.
• Coach and develop team members while promoting collaboration, cross-training, knowledge sharing, and consistent testing practices.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and training of testing team members.
• Manage team capacity and testing assignments based on business priorities, release schedules, complexity, and risk.
• Coordinate testing coverage for scheduled production releases, including applicable night or early-morning testing.
• Define and maintain the testing strategy for the Medicaid Clinical platform.
• Lead functional, regression, integration, configuration, end-to-end, and production validation testing.
• Establish standards for test cases, test scenarios, test data, execution, and supporting evidence.
• Review business and functional requirements to identify testing needs, risks, and gaps.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites and expand automation opportunities to improve testing efficiency, scalability, and coverage.
• Evaluate test results, defects, and risks to provide release-readiness recommendations.
• Lead defect triage and establish standards for documenting, prioritizing, retesting, and resolving defects.
• Partner with Product, Business Systems Analysis, developers, vendors, and clinical stakeholders to investigate and resolve quality issues.
• Serve as a liaison for new testing requests, assessing scope, priorities, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Communicate testing progress, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release readiness to stakeholders and leadership.
• Monitor test coverage, execution progress, defect trends, and automation effectiveness.
• Analyze recurring defects and testing gaps to identify opportunities for process and quality improvements.
• Develop repeatable testing processes that improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
• Recommend improvements to workflows, configurations, requirements, and testing procedures based on testing findings.

Skills

Quality assurance

Automation testing

Agile delivery

Leadership

Test planning

Defect management

Communication

Team coaching

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Humana is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA strategy for Medicaid Clinical platforms and integrations. You will lead a testers team, establish scalable testing processes, and advance automation across functional, regression, integration, configuration, and production validation testing.

You will communicate testing progress and quality considerations to management and executives, while coaching team members and shaping testing standards.