Remote Senior Quality Engineering Leader – Healthcare Payer

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 71,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Manager – Healthcare to lead end-to-end QA delivery for complex payer programs. You will shape test strategy, governance, and release readiness while coordinating with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams across onsite and offshore locations.

Your experience includes 10+ years in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering focusing on Healthcare Payer systems, with multi-vendor delivery and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Quality Assurance/Engineering, focused on Healthcare Payer systems and Facets 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-vendor, cross-functional, and onsite/offshore delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management, client governance, executive communication, and delivery leadership experience, including SLAs.

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

Test Strategy

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology

Tools

Facets platform

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Manager – Healthcare to lead end-to-end QA delivery for complex payer programs. You will shape test strategy, governance, and release readiness while coordinating with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams across onsite and offshore locations.

Your experience includes 10+ years in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering focusing on Healthcare Payer systems, with multi-vendor delivery and strong stakeholder management.