You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:- Own end-to-end test strategy across UI, API, services, data, and AI-enabled features
- Define quality gates (entry/exit criteria) and drive risk-based test planning for complex, multi-service releases
- Lead shift-left practices by partnering early with product/engineering to embed testability into architecture and design
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites (unit, integration, API, UI, contract, regression) integrated into CI/CD pipelines
- Create and manage test data, environments, mocks/stubs, and service virtualization to enable reliable testing
- Execute exploratory testing on high-risk areas and validate non-functional requirements (performance, security, reliability, accessibility)
- Monitor and improve quality metrics (defect leakage, coverage, flakiness, escape rates) and drive continuous improvement actions
- Triage defects, perform root-cause analysis with engineering, and verify fixes through regression and targeted automation
- Ensure release readiness by coordinating test execution, validating cross-service integrations, and reporting quality status to stakeholders
- Champion best practices for coding standards, testability, observability, and "quality ownership" across the team
- Troubleshooting skills to triage production issues and do root cause analysis
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with technical and business teams
- Ability to work and collaborate with teammates as well as other teams across the larger org and globally
- Eagerness to learn new applications and tools
- Capability to understand and learn without much external help
- Review and analyze logs in Splunk and Datadog or any other monitoring platform
- Should be well versed with basic GenAI concepts: Vibe coding, Prompt Engineering
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.
Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years (or appropriate level) of experience in Quality Engineering, SDET, or software testing for web applications and APIs
- 3+ years of experience in testing RESTful APIs and working with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured)
- 2+ years of professional software engineering and/or test automation development experience with tools like: Selenium, Playright and something similar
- 2+ years of experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- 2+ years of experience in designing, writing, and executing automated test suites using frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Cucumber
Preferred Qualifications:- Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC, defect lifecycle, and test strategy (risk-based testing, shift-left, quality gates)
- Hands-on experience testing UI and APIs (REST/JSON), including integration and end-to-end testing across services
- Experience with test automation using at least one modern language/toolset (e.g., Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#) and frameworks (e.g.,
- Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, REST Assured/Postman)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and integrating automated tests into pipelines
- Ability to analyze logs, troubleshoot issues, and partner with engineers on root-cause analysis
- Strong communication skills and ability to document test plans, quality status, and release readiness
- Experience testing microservices and distributed systems (contract testing, service virtualization, event-driven flows
- Exposure to data validation (SQL, ETL testing, data quality checks) and test data management
- Knowledge of performance testing (e.g., JMeter, k6) and basic security testing concepts (OWASP)
- Cloud and container experience (AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana) to support monitoring and testability
- Experience validating AI-enabled features (model behavior checks, prompt/response evaluation, bias/quality metrics, regression testing for LLM changes)
- Domain experience in payments, financial services, or regulated environments
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
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). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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