# Associate Director, Quality Engineering **Company**: Humana **Location**: Louisville, KY, KY **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $142,300 - $195,700 per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Louisville-KY/Associate-Director--Quality-Engineering_R-435074?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d4b47199-795 ## Description Humana is seeking an Associate Director, Quality Engineering to lead quality engineering practices across a defined portion of Humana's technology portfolio. **Responsibilities** - Lead quality engineering strategy and execution across a defined portfolio, domain, or segment. - Develop and manage quality engineering managers, leads, engineers, and SDETs. - Establish portfolio quality goals, KPIs, and governance to improve delivery quality, release readiness, and production stability. - Embed built-in quality across planning, design, development, testing, and deployment. - Oversee test strategy and execution across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and release validation. - Own portfolio-level quality risk management, including defect trends, release concerns, environment issues, and cross-team dependencies. - Drive automation-first practices and integrate quality signals, validation, and gates into CI/CD pipelines. - Lead adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and promote innovative practices that improve speed, coverage, and reliability. - Sponsor modernization of quality frameworks, tooling, and test approaches for APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms. - Oversee non-functional quality practices, including performance, resiliency, operational readiness, and security validation. - Use metrics and production insights to drive continuous improvement, maturity, and investment priorities. - Partner with segment and enterprise stakeholders to align execution with broader quality engineering strategy, standards, and reference architecture direction. - Ensure responsible adoption of AI and compliance with applicable security, privacy, regulatory, and operational standards. **Requirements** - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, testing, or related technical disciplines. - 5+ years of leadership experience managing quality engineering, test automation, or software delivery teams in large enterprise environments. - Experience leading quality engineering execution across multiple agile teams or a complex application/product portfolio. - Demonstrated success driving quality engineering modernization, including automation, tooling, process improvement, and metrics-driven execution. - Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices. - Experience with API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing approaches. - Familiarity with distributed systems and modern application architectures. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional leaders. - Experience working in matrixed organizations and leading geographically distributed teams. - Proven experience leading adoption of AI capabilities within Quality Engineering processes. - Demonstrated success leveraging AI to improve test planning, test design, test automation, and QE effectiveness. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry. - Familiarity with member, provider, digital experience, or enterprise platform domains. - Experience with enterprise quality tools, test management platforms, and engineering lifecycle tools. - Knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures. - Experience supporting non-functional testing, including performance and resiliency. - Exposure to AI-enabled quality engineering or intelligent automation capabilities. - Familiarity with enterprise reference architecture principles, patterns, and standards in cloud, hybrid, on-premise, and SaaS environments. **Success in this Role** - Improved release stability and delivery quality across the assigned portfolio. - Reduced escaped defects and production incidents related to delivery quality. - Increased automation adoption, regression reliability, and validation efficiency. - Stronger integration of quality engineering into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines. - Advancement of quality engineering maturity and consistent execution across teams. - Positive stakeholder partnership and strong team engagement and development outcomes. **Work Arrangements** - Remote position with occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings. - Must have a dedicated workspace with minimal distractions and a reliable internet connection with a minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and upload speed of 10 Mbps. **Salary and Benefits** - $142,300 - $195,700 per year - Eligible for a bonus incentive plan - Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, and disability insurance ## Skills ### Required - Agile - DevOps - CI/CD - API testing - UI testing - Integration testing - Regression testing - End-to-end testing - Distributed systems - Cloud-native architectures - AI-enabled quality engineering ### Nice to have - Healthcare experience - Enterprise quality tools - Microservices - Event-driven systems - Non-functional testing --- Source: [Apply at humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Louisville-KY/Associate-Director--Quality-Engineering_R-435074?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)