Quality Engineer - Remote

Requisition Number: 2385294
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
As a Quality Engineer on the Optum Technology team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and quality of software solutions that power health services nationwide. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional software engineering teams to design and execute test strategies, build robust test automation suites, and continuously improve software quality assurance processes. By utilizing modern testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, you will help deliver innovative healthcare technology that improves patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for web applications, APIs, and microservices
• Collaborate with software developers, system architects, and product owners to define acceptance criteria, test strategies, and quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle
• Execute manual and automated functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end tests to validate application performance and usability
• Identify, log, track, and manage software defects to resolution using defect management and issue-tracking tools
• Integrate automated test suites into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to enable continuous testing
• Analyze testing results, generate quality metrics, and report test coverage and risk assessments to technical and leadership stakeholders
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, and architectural discussions to advocate for quality engineering best practices

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction 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 or 4+ years of software quality engineering or software development experience
• 3+ years of experience in software quality assurance and quality engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on test automation experience using tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or JUnit/TestNG
• 2+ years of experience with API testing using tools like Postman, REST Assured, or SoapUI
• 2+ years of experience writing SQL queries for data validation and database testing
• 1+ years of experience working within an Agile/Scrum development environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
• Experience integrating test automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab)
• Experience with performance, load, or security testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)
• Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Background or familiarity with healthcare IT systems, HIPAA compliance, or health data standards

*All employees working remotely 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 - $130,000 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. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. 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. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
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. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.