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UnitedHealth Group Senior Quality Engineer II in Gurgaon, India
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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Role Details: At Optum we are looking for a detail-oriented, experienced Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to help architect, design, build robust automation tools and framework to tackle hard to solve problems with a passion for quality to ensure delivery of robust software product solutions for our internal and external customers. Your role will work very closely with the members of a cross-functional delivery team and will be focused on test case creation, manual test execution and creating and maintaining test automation, ensuring testability of the developed components while reporting qualitative results against established targets. You will build test automation with the goal of providing maximum coverage in the most efficient manner. You are also responsible for ensuring that the test infrastructure is easily maintainable and can scale to the demands of a rapid continuous integration continuous deployment environment.
This position is an individual contributor role and reports to onshore Manager.
Job Role: Senior Quality Engineer
Years of Experience: 10 - 12 years
Preferred Location : Any
Shift Timing (IST): 3:00pm - 1:00am
Primary Responsibilities:
Champion for product quality within the team and is accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments on product delivery schedules
Design and develop a robust test automation framework using Playwright JS framework, GitHub Actions, and JMeter for load testing
Create and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing
Work closely with QA managers and stakeholders to define test automation strategies and best practices
Identify, prioritize, and resolve test automation issues and challenges
Continuously enhance and optimize the test automation framework to improve test coverage, efficiency, and reliability
Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior members of the QA team
Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in test automation tools and techniques
Work with Product and Development teams to design and implement Test Strategy to deliver quality consumer software product
Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks while driving processes to reduce manual test coverage
Ensure our products meet high standards of quality, performance, Security, and reliability
Help writing test plans, test cases, and provide suggestion in improving the QA processes
Review and critique of technical requirements and software design specifications and software implementation
Assist the dev team in the analysis of defects and track them to successful resolution
Follow the organization’s established policies and procedures when implementing automated tests
Provide comprehensive status reports to QA management
Leverage communication, documentation, preparation, and training to educate other disciplines in regard to the established QA Automation processes
Support program management teams, as needed, according to the schedule of releases
Actively research new tools/methods that could prove beneficial in the implementation of Automated Tests
Manage all test execution and defects in any given test management tool; Lead defect triage to effectively report all defects to the Scrum team
Perform manual exploratory testing to help identify difficult to find bugs and UX issues
Work with a distributed agile team
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
It is important to us to point out that if you don’t have these skills, that doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear from you. If you love software testing and can show your potential to excel, we definitely want to hear from you.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Required Qualifications:
Graduate degree or equivalent experience
Experience in Manual and automation of Web services (Rest, GraphQL) using API testing tools such as Postman, GraphQL Playground, or similar tools
Experience with CI/CD and project management tools (e.g., Github, CI/CD tools, Jenkins, Rally, Share point, etc.)
Extensive experience in test automation architecture and framework development
Experience with any JavaScript test automation frameworks (e.g., NodeJs / Cypress/Cucumber/ WebdriverIO / Puppeteer/ Selenium/Playwright/ Mocha/Protractor and willingness to learn new tools as necessary)
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Experience in Manual and automation of Web services (Rest, GraphQL) using API testing tools such as Postman, GraphQL Playground, or similar tools
Expertise in using GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment
In-depth knowledge of JMeter for load testing and performance monitoring
Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices
Solid proficiency in Playwright JS framework for web application testing
Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven excellent communication and collaboration skills
Proven enthusiasm for finding and fixing broken things every single day
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field and 8+ years of work experience in relevant roles
8+ years developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts
CI experience to enable automated test execution with tools like GitHub Actions Preferred ( Jenkins, CircleCI, or Bamboo etc)
Experience with cross-browser compatibility testing methodologies and practices
Playwright experience and proficiency
Deep understanding of software quality methodologies and processes
Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker
Well versed with concepts of Performance and Load Testing with JMeter
Proficiency in any JS test automation frameworks (e.g., Node JS / Cypress/Cucumber/ Web Driver IO / Puppeteer/ Selenium/Playwright/ Mocha/Protractor and willingness to learn new tools as necessary)
Proficiency in writing and modifying DB Queries
Demonstrated solid ability to debug code, analyzes failures, and trace defects to the root cause.
Proven comfortable working in a dynamic, low structure, constantly changing atmosphere; able to prioritize work appropriately across changing contexts.
Proven enthusiasm for finding and fixing broken things every single day
Demonstrated aptitude for triaging, troubleshooting, and thoroughly testing complex systems
Proven exceptional written and verbal communication abilities, including working with individuals in different geographical locations and time-zones
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.