# Lead Quality Engineer

**Company**: Humana Inc.
**Location**: Remote Kentucky
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $117,600 - $161,700 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- software quality assurance
- quality engineering
- application testing
- Agile delivery
- automated test suites

### Nice to have
- Medicaid programs
- utilization management
- care management
- healthcare clinical workflows
- Azure DevOps
- Jira

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