Remote Senior Quality Engineering Leader – Healthcare Facets

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 71,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Senior Quality Engineering Manager – Healthcare to lead end-to-end quality engineering delivery for complex payer programs. You will drive test strategy, governance, release readiness, and cross-team collaboration across onsite/offshore teams.

The role emphasizes stakeholder management, SLAs, and risk governance, with a flexible remote model for US applicants. A strong background in Facets testing and healthcare payer operations is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering experience, with a strong focus on Healthcare Payer systems and Facets platform testing.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end testing for large-scale Facets programs, including test strategy, estimation, planning, execution, defect management, and release governance.
• Strong domain knowledge of Healthcare Payer operations and associated business processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-vendor, cross-functional, and onsite/offshore delivery teams for complex transformation or modernization initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, client governance, executive communication, and delivery leadership experience, including management of SLAs and service commitments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Quality Engineering delivery across healthcare payer programs, including functional, integration, regression, user acceptance, and release testing.
• Own test strategy, planning, estimation, scope definition, resource planning, risk management, defect management, and release readiness.
• Provide testing governance across large-scale Facets programs, ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
• Lead multi-vendor and cross-functional teams across onsite and offshore locations to drive collaboration and successful delivery.
• Manage client and executive stakeholder communication, delivery governance, SLAs, risks, dependencies, and service commitments.

Skills

Quality Assurance experience

Healthcare Payer domain knowledge

Test strategy & governance

Stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / IT

Tools

Facets testing

Job description

Cognizant seeks a Senior Quality Engineering Manager – Healthcare to lead end-to-end quality engineering delivery for complex payer programs. You will drive test strategy, governance, release readiness, and cross-team collaboration across onsite/offshore teams.

The role emphasizes stakeholder management, SLAs, and risk governance, with a flexible remote model for US applicants. A strong background in Facets testing and healthcare payer operations is required.