Lead Quality Engineer

The Lead Quality Engineer leads the quality assurance and testing strategy for Medicaid Clinical platforms and integrations, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and operate reliably across pre-production and production environments.

Team Leadership & Delivery

• Lead a team of testers by establishing priorities, responsibilities, and accountability for testing deliverables.
• Coach and develop team members while promoting collaboration, cross-training, knowledge sharing, and consistent testing practices.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and training of testing team members.
• Manage team capacity and testing assignments based on business priorities, release schedules, complexity, and risk.
• Coordinate testing coverage for scheduled production releases, including applicable night or early-morning testing.

Quality Engineering & Testing

• Define and maintain the testing strategy for the Medicaid Clinical platform.
• Lead functional, regression, integration, configuration, end-to-end, and production validation testing.
• Establish standards for test cases, test scenarios, test data, execution, and supporting evidence.
• Review business and functional requirements to identify testing needs, risks, and gaps.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites and expand automation opportunities to improve testing efficiency, scalability, and coverage.
• Evaluate test results, defects, and risks to provide release-readiness recommendations.

Defect Management & Collaboration

• Lead defect triage and establish standards for documenting, prioritizing, retesting, and resolving defects.
• Partner with Product, Business Systems Analysis, developers, vendors, and clinical stakeholders to investigate and resolve quality issues.
• Serve as a liaison for new testing requests, assessing scope, priorities, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Communicate testing progress, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release readiness to stakeholders and leadership.

Continuous Improvement

• Monitor test coverage, execution progress, defect trends, and automation effectiveness.
• Analyze recurring defects and testing gaps to identify opportunities for process and quality improvements.
• Develop repeatable testing processes that improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
• Recommend improvements to workflows, configurations, requirements, and testing procedures based on testing findings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, quality engineering, application testing, or a related technology field.
• 2-3 years' experience creating, reviewing, executing, and validating test cases and test scenarios.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test suites.
• Experience with defect identification, documentation, triage, retesting, and resolution.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment.
• Experience leading functional, regression, integration, and configuration testing.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, establish scalable processes, and exercise independent judgment with minimal supervision.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance