Lead Quality Engineer: Next Best Action (Remote)

CenterWell Certified Healthcare Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a hands-on Lead, Segment Quality Engineer to drive quality engineering across key products and delivery initiatives. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and Quality Engineering leaders to embed automated testing, validation, and CI/CD quality into modern software delivery.

You will lead cross-team testing efforts, design automation strategies, and contribute to non-functional validation, ensuring release readiness, production stability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, test automation, or related technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience serving in a senior or lead quality engineering role on complex technology projects or enterprise applications.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing automated tests across API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end validation.
• Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery models.
• Strong understanding of software quality engineering principles, defect lifecycle management, and release validation practices.
• Experience with modern testing tools, frameworks, and engineering lifecycle platforms.
• Ability to lead technical quality efforts across multiple teams while remaining hands-on in analysis, automation, and validation.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience working in matrixed environments with cross-functional engineering and delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on quality engineering lead for complex projects, programs, and product initiatives across a defined segment portfolio.
• Lead end-to-end quality engineering activities for assigned initiatives, including test planning, scope definition, environment coordination, execution oversight, and release validation.
• Design, build, maintain, and improve automated test assets across API, UI, integration, end-to-end, and regression layers.
• Partner with engineers to embed automated quality checks and validation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Provide technical leadership on test architecture, automation frameworks, test data strategies, and validation approaches for modern applications and distributed systems.
• Drive risk-based testing decisions by evaluating business impact, technical complexity, integration dependencies, and release timelines.
• Lead defect triage activities for assigned initiatives, including issue analysis, prioritization support, root cause identification, and defect prevention recommendations.
• Monitor and communicate quality risks, test progress, release readiness, and key outcomes to project and engineering stakeholders.
• Support production issue analysis and post-release learning to improve future delivery quality and reduce escaped defects.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and promote innovative practices that improve speed, coverage, and reliability.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

CI/CD

Agile

DevOps

Communication

Leadership

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

Humana is seeking a hands-on Lead, Segment Quality Engineer to drive quality engineering across key products and delivery initiatives. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and Quality Engineering leaders to embed automated testing, validation, and CI/CD quality into modern software delivery.

You will lead cross-team testing efforts, design automation strategies, and contribute to non-functional validation, ensuring release readiness, production stability,