Lead Quality Engineer

Humana Inc. · Remote Kentucky · $117,600 - $161,700 per year · remote 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