Quality Assurance Lead

UnitedHealth Group is the most diversified health care company in the United States and a leader worldwide in helping people live healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone.

As a QA Lead you would work as a part of a dynamic team involved with software, web, portal, application, and other testing for new systems and/or enhancements with a focus on both manual and/or automated testing tools, test script and test plan creation and maintenance, defect tracking and reporting.

* Work concurrently on several projects, each with specific instructions that may differ from project to project * Ensure that quality processes are carried out through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle * Work with business partners, systems analyst, designers and programmers to create/analyze required project documents and ensures that quality assurance processes are incorporated * Analyze and dissect system requirements and technical specifications to create and execute test cases for large business initiatives * Ability to write test cases and execute testing within a web service environment * Product test and driving defect resolution * Assist business users in defining User Acceptance Testing, test cases and plans * Establish and maintain test cases and test data * Create and maintain test cases in Quality Center and/or Test Director * Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance * Work with business users, system analysts, designers and programmers to create and analyze various required project documents * Participate in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality * Plan, document, evaluate and track testing results to ensure system applications are free from defects * Communicate and interact with appropriate areas on problems, changes and enhancements that may impact data, workflow and /or functionality within Information Technology software * Comply with standards of the software development life cycle and follow strategies, plans and procedures within information Technology software * Comply with standards and strategies of the software development life cycle

**Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience * 10+ years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience * 8+ years of relational database experience * 8+ years of experience with Quality Assurance testing tools * 5+ years of experience leading testing teams * 2+ years of experience working in a healthcare environment **Preferred Qualifications:** * Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience * Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access) * Proficiency with MS Visio * Healthcare Industry experience * Understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle