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