Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
Core SDET Responsibilities (Tool-Agnostic)
Quality Engineering & Test Strategy
Translate business requirements into testable acceptance criteria; define test strategy across unit, API, UI, and end-to-end (E2E)
Build a risk-based test plan focusing on business-critical flows, edge cases, and negative scenarios
Establish shift-left practices: collaborate with developers to add unit/integration tests early; advocate testability in design (IDs, accessibility,



deterministic APIs)
Automation & Frameworks
Design and maintain modular, maintainable automation frameworks (page object or screen-play pattern, data-driven tests, fixtures, utilities)
Implement parallel test execution, selective test runs (tags), and secure waits to minimize flakiness
Integrate with CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins): test gating, environment provisioning, artifacts (videos, HAR, screenshots), and reporting
Quality Signals & Observability
Own quality metrics: coverage %, pass rate, mean time to detect (MTTD), mean time to repair (MTTR), failure classification (test vs product)
Instrument test telemetry: capture logs, network traces, performance timings, accessibility checks; publish dashboards
Setting & Data
Provision test settings (Docker/Azure containers), seed synthetic test data, manage test accounts, stub/mocks for third-party integrations
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📌 Quality Consultant Pune (India)
🏢 Optum
📍 India