Remote Healthcare Data Quality Lead

Highmark Health; Alaska; Remote; USD 73,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Quality Lead with strong data-testing leadership and healthcare domain expertise to define strategy, oversee end-to-end quality activities, guide technical teams, and translate complex data-quality risks into clear business impacts. The role does not require day-to-day hands-on test execution.

The position emphasizes delivery leadership across the SDLC and Agile delivery, with focus on data validation, risk management, and communicating quality status to executives

Qualifications

• 3 years managing projects, timelines, and resources.
• 3 years leading and mentoring QA testers and teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead data testing strategy, planning, estimation, execution oversight, quality metrics, and reporting.
• Oversee SQL/database validation, data integration, ETL, migration, and end-to-end data-flow testing.
• Guide test data management and apply experience with test automation and data-validation tools.
• Understand claims, membership, provider, and care management data.
• Lead risk identification, mitigation, defect management, and root cause analysis.
• Drive quality across the SDLC, Agile delivery, and release readiness.
• Build client relationships, lead cross-functional collaboration, and communicate quality status and business impacts to executives.

Skills

Data testing leadership

Healthcare domain knowledge

SDLC & Agile leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Quality Lead with strong data-testing leadership and healthcare domain expertise to define strategy, oversee end-to-end quality activities, guide technical teams, and translate complex data-quality risks into clear business impacts. The role does not require day-to-day hands-on test execution.

The position emphasizes delivery leadership across the SDLC and Agile delivery, with focus on data validation, risk management, and communicating quality status to executives