Lead Automation Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Perform manual and automated quality validation across all products, services, EDI workflows, and production-aligned environments.
• Create, maintain, and improve automated test scripts using Selenium, Appium, or comparable testing frameworks.
• Perform manual testing for Agile user stories and verify that acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and expected results are met.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, smoke, API, file-processing, and output-comparison testing accurately and reliably.
• Develop automated regression and comparison tests, including validation of 837 transaction output against approved baselines and expected changes.
• Navigate and validate multiple testing environments, including development, pre-QA, QA, post-QA, and production-aligned environments.
• Create SQL queries to prepare test data, validate database state, compare results, and verify expected outcomes.
• Track tested issues, defects, test evidence, and results accurately in Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Suggest software improvements and corrections based on test results, recurring defects, and production findings.
• Coordinate with Quality Control, Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and business stakeholders to meet delivery and quality goals.
• Integrate automated tests, linters, configuration checks, and quality gates into Azure DevOps and Git-based CI/CD pipelines to support earlier defect detection and controlled release promotion.
• Support release validation, pipeline approvals, defect investigation, promotion controls, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement to strengthen production readiness.
• Maintain automated test procedures, test coverage, operational runbooks, and auditable release-quality documentation.

Required Skills

• Functional, regression, integration, smoke, API, file-processing, and output-comparison testing across manual and automated workflows.
• Selenium, Appium, or similar automated testing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of object-oriented programming languages, with C# preferred.
• Agile user-story testing, acceptance-criteria validation, and accurate test execution.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps, including test plans, test cases, defect tracking, pipelines, and release controls; TFS experience is helpful where legacy workflows remain in use.
• SQL query development for test-data setup, data comparison, database validation, and verification of test results.
• Ability to work across multiple application and testing environments.
• Git-based development workflows, pull requests, branch controls, and GitHub Actions or equivalent pipeline automation.
• CI/CD quality gates, release validation, test-result reporting, and automated promotion controls.
• Policy as Code, linters, configuration testing, and automated compliance validation.
• Defect troubleshooting, technical documentation, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to Have

• Experience testing healthcare EDI transactions, particularly 837 claim files and downstream clearinghouse output.
• Experience building baseline-versus-modified pipeline comparison harnesses for production-equivalent test inputs.
• Experience validating reference-data changes through automated snapshots and comparison scripts.
• Experience supporting large-scale production SaaS environments with formal change management and release governance.
• Experience producing auditable quality evidence for compliance-driven environments.
• Demonstrated success improving release confidence, increasing test repeatability, and reducing escaped defects through automation and earlier validation.