Remote: Director, Enterprise Quality Validation & Integration

Humana; New Jersey; Remote; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana, a leading U.S. healthcare company, seeks a Director to lead Enterprise Quality Engineering across cross-platform validation and release certification.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role coordinating with Quality Engineering, Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Operations, and cybersecurity to ensure reliable production workflows and high quality outcomes. The role emphasizes AI-enabled validation, automation strategy, risk prediction, and governance, with responsibility

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, test engineering, systems integration, technology delivery, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or enterprise-scale quality engineering capabilities.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end testing, integration testing, release validation, or enterprise quality certification in complex environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of test strategy, automation, integration validation, production validation, defect analysis, risk assessment, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness.
• Experience leveraging data, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled practices to improve quality insights, test effectiveness, risk detection, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise quality validation strategy for end-to-end business workflows, cross-platform integrations, and multi-segment technology initiatives.
• Establish standards and operating models for integration assurance, release certification, automation, resiliency testing, and production quality validation.
• Provide technical leadership for complex validation scenarios, including dependency mapping, risk-based test planning, automation strategy, test data needs, and environment readiness.
• Partner across engineering, architecture, product, DevOps, release management, operations, cybersecurity, and platform teams to manage quality risks, resolve defects, and improve release readiness.
• Advance automation-first and AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve test planning, defect analysis, risk prediction, release confidence, and quality insights.
• Own enterprise release certification, including readiness criteria, quality gates, executive reporting, risk escalation, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Drive reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, smoke testing, post-release validation, and production quality practices for critical workflows and integrations.
• Define quality metrics, dashboards, and governance routines to provide visibility into validation progress, dependency risk, defect trends, release readiness, and production outcomes.
• Build and develop a high-performing quality engineering team while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Quality engineering

Software engineering

Test engineering

Systems integration

Leadership

Agile

DevOps

CI/CD

Release management

AI-enabled quality

Observability

Executive communication

Job description

Humana, a leading U.S. healthcare company, seeks a Director to lead Enterprise Quality Engineering across cross-platform validation and release certification.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role coordinating with Quality Engineering, Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Operations, and cybersecurity to ensure reliable production workflows and high quality outcomes. The role emphasizes AI-enabled validation, automation strategy, risk prediction, and governance, with responsibility