Quality Engineering Senior

EDW QE Quality Engineer

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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. An EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) QE (Quality Engineer) professional is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and quality of data within the data warehouse environment. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. The Technology Quality Function is reserved for those positions where Quality is the primary objective of the work delivered.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.C. area, you will be required to work in the office for a minimum of four days per week.

Verifying source-to-target data mappings

Testing data transformations

Leveraging AI CoPilot, Python ensuring that reports and dashboards reflect accurate business information

Collaborate closely with data engineers, business analysts, and developers to identify data issues, create comprehensive test plans and test cases, and support defect resolution throughout the development lifecycle

Technology Quality roles will cover all primary quality activity across all technological functions that ensure we deliver high quality products and services

Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed, Works with less structured, more complex issues, Serves as a resource for others

Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation and who designs, delivers AI solutions, platforms and automations at scale in their daily work

Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, reviews, and user group meetings for quality assurance

Develop test cases and prioritize testing activities, validate ETL process

Carry out regression testing every time changes are made to the code to fix defects

Prepare the status report for testing activities

Mentor and direct other testers in automation and software engineering principles

Develop in-depth system and application knowledge to provide higher test quality and coverage

Constantly evaluate and enhance the test automation strategy and approach

Collaborate as part of the scrum team in grooming user stories and development of acceptance criteria for the user stories

Share and communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to staff, business sponsors, managers, and technical resources in clear concise language that is appropriate to the target audience

Participate in communities of practice to share knowledge, learn, and innovate

Research and implement tools that support faster delivery with high quality

Test Manager in past has led the adoption of LLM-powered AI agents to automate EDW testing, generating test cases, validating pipelines, and detecting anomalies. This has cut manual effort, boosted coverage, and speed up releases

Strong Understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold data architecture in modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse)

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Bachelor's degree

• 7+ years of accomplished experience in software testing
• 5+ years of experience working as Backend, Database, Datawarehouse migration, ETL tester
• 5+ years of excellent SQL skills and experience working with any one RDBMS
• 5+ years of experience in UI, smoke, E2E and integration testing
• 5+ years of experience with estimation of testing efforts and working with project managers to prepare project schedule
• 5+ years of experience working in Automation testing for database, PowerBI, Reports & Dashboards

Knowledge of MMIS data warehouse migration and data mart validation

Python Test Automation and GitHub Code Management tool

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. 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. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace.