Optum Tech, part of UnitedHealth Group, is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer for the Rebates Modernization team within OptumRx. You will play a critical role in modernizing Service Level Objectives and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our applications. Your work will involve validating and verifying functionality on new Data and compute platforms, including Hyperscale and Databricks in Azure.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, reuse, and execute tests across multiple software lifecycles.
- Develop an in-depth system and application knowledge to provide higher test quality and coverage.
- Constantly evaluate and enhance the test strategy and approach.
- Collaborate as part of the scrum team in grooming user stories and development of acceptance criteria.
- Ensure functional and non-functional acceptance criteria aligns to the business value statement.
- Champion, mentor and direct other engineers and business in test process best practices and quality engineering principles.
- Embrace continuous learning to ensure industry’s best practices and technology adoption.
- Serves as a recognized expert for the RxMax Application.
- Efficiently perform SQL queries against large billion row tables to understand the data behind processes.
- Provides guidance, troubleshoots and answers complex questions related to application features and processes.
- Look for opportunities to automate testing based on functionality.
- Identifies and communicates enterprise-wide impact of internal and external issues.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and reliability across the data engineering infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience in Quality Assurance testing for data driven systems, including validation of data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability across pipelines and reports.
- 4+ years of experience performing data analysis in support of QA activities, such as test execution, source to target validation, reconciliation, and defect investigation.
- 3+ years of experience using SQL and scripting languages to develop test queries, automate data validation checks, and identify data quality defects.
- 2+ years of experience testing and validating data pipelines built on high availability database systems (e.g., Hyperscale), including regression, performance, and failure scenario testing.
- 2+ years of experience working in Azure environments, with hands on responsibility for validating cloud based data solutions, integrations, and deployments.
- Solid expertise in analyzing QA test results, identifying data quality issues and performance bottlenecks, and documenting defects, root causes, and recommendations.
Nice to Have
- Experience in SQL, Java, JavaScript OR Python programming languages.
- Knowledge & Exposure in AI, GenAI, LLMs, GPT4.0.
- Familiarity with streaming technologies and modern data platforms.
- Exposure to the healthcare industry.
Technical Stack
- SQL
- Hyperscale
- Databricks
- Azure
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
Team & Environment
Part of the Rebates Modernization team within OptumRx.
Benefits & Compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position open to candidates located in the United States.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
