Senior Quality Engineer - Automation Engineering

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The Senior Quality Engineer carries out procedures to ensure that all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements. The Senior Quality Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Quality Engineer with Automation expertise who is passionate about building modern quality engineering solutions and driving innovation in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role is ideal for Team player and a hands-on automation leader who thrives on solving complex problems and can iteratively deliver high-quality software through scalable automation.

The Senior Quality Engineer will design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions that improve software quality, reduce manual effort, and support reliable product releases. This individual will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, DevOps, and Quality Engineering teams to build scalable test coverage across functional, regression, integration, and API testing. The role also uses AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, execution, maintenance, and analysis.

The ideal candidate combines strong automation expertise, with analytical thinking, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a continuous improvement in mindset. This role will also leverage AI responsibly and effectively throughout the software quality lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Define and implement automation framework and strategy at each layer of the testing pyramid, including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.

Develop and maintain automated tests to help ensure high test coverage and fast feedback on defects.

Help define the test architecture across all test frameworks and tooling.

Manage test strategy, product testing, and planning within your sprint team.

Create testing-related documentation including test plans and test cases.

Find and report bugs and track these to resolution in a timely manner.

Collaborate with the Product team to provide valuable insight and input to help create impactful features.

Provide clear test results to Development and Product teams to help manage project expectations and track progress.

Utilize AI tools like Playwright MCP, Claude, and Copilot to realize efficiencies in your daily work.

Maintain and refine quality metrics to help track and communicate overall product health.

Drive QA release process, activities, and work to unblock issues with collaboration from engineering and product teams.

Partner closely with developers and architects on design discussions to ensure testability, automation coverage, and quality gates are built in from the start (shift-left).

Drive modernization initiatives by enabling faster, safer integrations through automated testing of APIs and foundational services, integrated into CI/CD.

Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience by building automated checks (functional, contract, performance) and proactively identifying risks before they reach production.

Support modernization of legacy components, ensuring compliance, risk remediation, and industry leading quality standards are maintained.

Own automation outcomes and look for continuous improvements for test automation stability and coverage. Partner with all QA teams, pairing with engineers, contributing code, and ensuring every sprint ships with reliable automated coverage.

Lead through influence by fostering collaboration, providing constructive feedback, and elevating team performance.

Serve as a trusted technical partner who helps shape engineering, quality, and delivery decisions across the organization.

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications:

12+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Test Automation with a demonstrated track record of team leadership and building automation from the ground up.

12+ Expertise in End-to-End User Acceptance Testing (UAT), functional testing, black box testing and overall software quality practices.

12+ Experience with test management and defect tracking tools such as qTest, Azure, or equivalent platforms.

10+ Experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, and/or Playwright.

10 + Experience with one of the following languages: Python, Typescript, Java, or JavaScript

8+ Experience developing automated tests for APIs in scripting or programming languages.

8+ Experience with API automation frameworks such as Pytest or REST Assured, or similar tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience leveraging AI-powered development and testing tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Playwright, or similar technologies for test development.

Experience using Eclipse or other IDE tools for development and debugging.

Experience with distributed version control systems such as GitHub or Bitbucket.

Familiarity with code quality governance tools such as Sonar, FindBugs, or Checkmarx.

Experience in Docker and Kubernetes

Experience in Azure Databricks, Postgres

Experience establishing and reporting quality engineering metrics such as test coverage, automation coverage, flake rate, false positive rate, and mean time to detect and mean time to triage.

THE TECH STACK YOU'LL USE

Selenium Cucumber/Selenium C#

Cypress, Playwright, Typescript

Unit/Integration testing: Jest

API testing: Postman / REST Assured

CI/CD & release orchestration (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / ArgoCD / Spinnaker/ Harness)

Observability/monitoring tooling (Datadog or equivalent)

MongoDB

Microservice architecture / Kubernetes

Sql server

Azure / Google Cloud

Additional Information

This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$97,900 - $133,500 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.