Remote Associate Director, Quality Engineering

Humana; New York (NY); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking an Associate Director, Segment Quality Engineering to lead quality engineering practices across multiple products and delivery teams within Humana’s technology portfolio, partnering with product, engineering, architecture, platform, DevOps, and enterprise quality teams to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle.

You will drive release readiness, automation adoption, and measurable quality outcomes, mentor SDETs and engineers, and help scale AI-assisted quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, testing, or related technical disciplines.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing quality engineering, test automation, or software delivery teams in enterprise environments.
• Experience leading quality engineering activities across multiple agile teams or complex applications.
• Demonstrated experience improving quality engineering practices, including automation, process improvement, and metrics-based execution.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engineering execution for a defined set of applications, products, or agile teams within the segment portfolio.
• Manage, coach, and develop quality engineering leaders, engineers, and SDETs, with accountability for team performance, engagement, and growth.
• Implement quality engineering standards, practices, and governance established by segment and enterprise leadership.
• Drive quality planning and execution across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and release validation activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and delivery leaders to ensure quality is embedded in planning, design, development, and release processes.
• Oversee defect management activities, including triage coordination, trend analysis, root cause follow-up, and corrective action tracking.

Skills

Leadership

Quality engineering

Test automation

CI/CD

Release readiness

Communication

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Humana is seeking an Associate Director, Segment Quality Engineering to lead quality engineering practices across multiple products and delivery teams within Humana’s technology portfolio, partnering with product, engineering, architecture, platform, DevOps, and enterprise quality teams to embed quality throughout the software lifecycle.

You will drive release readiness, automation adoption, and measurable quality outcomes, mentor SDETs and engineers, and help scale AI-assisted quality