Lead automation testing efforts within Scrum teams, developing scalable tests, analyzing requirements, and ensuring risk-based testing principles are applied.
Requisition Number: 2351751
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work within Scrum teams to support QA tasks
- Fast learner, clear communication and executing the work assigned is critical
- Participate in discussions with the project team to analyze the functional and nonfunctional requirements of the solutions in Agile methodology
- Perform manual/automated testing and log detailed defects in Rally
- Design and develop scalable, flexible, and cross-platform automation tests
- Provide support in designing and execution of Performance tests based on Nonfunctional requirements
- Design and develop test approaches, test strategies, and test plans to ensure testing is right sized and risk-based testing principles are applied
- Participate in technical design reviews and be able to identify requirements ambiguity
- Provide QA status reports and escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to management for resolution
- Be responsible for ongoing continuous improvement to build testing efficiency and effectiveness using innovative QA practices
- Work closely with development and business partners during design and grooming sessions
- Review requirements and provide level of effort for various phases of testing
- Works with less structured, more complex issues
- Serves as a resource to others
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
Required Qualifications:
- Working Knowledge of AI/ML technologies with AI certifications
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in Automation testing to test both UI and API
- 8+ years of experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.
- 8+ years of experience in Smoke, Functional, Regression, End to End scenario testing ,System Testing, Database Testing & UAT Testing
- 4+ years in hands-on experience on supporting Performance testing using JMeter or Load Runner
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in using AI tools like Accelq
- Experience working in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins for executing automated tests
- Experience working with Agile Methodologies and Rally
- Excellent understanding of SDLC and automated QA processes in Agile development environments
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Optum Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
Chennai, India, India
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