Quality Automation Engineer - Multiple Locations
Basking Ridge, NJ

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

* Design functional and non-functional test cases that verify requirements and validate functionality
* Analyze user stories and technical requirements for validity, feasibility and technical soundness and decompose them to extract positive and negative test scenarios and strong acceptance criteria
* Detect, report, and track software defects
* Execute all levels of testing including but not limited to: System, Integration; Component Level Regression
* Use methodical and repeatable processes to verify releases meet quality standards before launch
* Apply Quality Engineering principles throughout the agile product life cycle to identify defect and design flaws
* Collaborate with the development team to improve the quality of the deliverables and ensure the business needs are met
* Profile manual acceptance criteria and test cases and implement automation opportunities
* Create and maintain reusable components, functions and libraries to reduce maintenance costs, increase efficiency and scalability

Required Qualifications:

* Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
* 4 years of enterprise software testing experience
* Experience working in an Agile Development environment
* Familiarity with development practices like Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development
* Familiarity with one or more scripting/programming languages and/or tools such as: C , C, MySQL, Perl, JAVA, Python
* Familiarity with Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins
* Excellent analytical, debugging, problem solving and root cause analysis skills
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Experienced in test result evaluation, reporting and metrics
* Highly self motivated, goal orientated, and self directed
* Demonstrated ability to operate and innovate in a small team with a fast paced environment, balancing both strategic and tactical needs

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in Acceptance Testing and how it applies to Agile Testing
* Familiarity with Agile Central/Rally Jenkins, JIRA and other continuous integration tools
* Familiarity with process bases applications and technologies such as Pega is a plus
* Familiarity with Agile Scrum, Kanban, or Lean software development practices is a plus

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Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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