About the Role
The Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering leads the enterprise orchestration of cross-platform quality validation, integration assurance, and end-to-end business workflow certification. This technical leadership role is accountable for ensuring critical business processes operate reliably across segments, platforms, applications, APIs, data flows, environments, and release events, with a hands-on expectation for engaging in validation strategy and technical problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise quality validation strategy for end-to-end business workflows, cross-platform integrations, and multi-segment technology initiatives.
- Establish standards and operating models for integration assurance, release certification, automation, resiliency testing, and production quality validation.
- Provide technical leadership for complex validation scenarios, including dependency mapping, risk-based test planning, automation strategy, test data needs, and environment readiness.
- Partner across engineering, architecture, product, DevOps, release management, operations, cybersecurity, and platform teams to manage quality risks, resolve defects, and improve release readiness.
- Advance automation-first and AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve test planning, defect analysis, risk prediction, release confidence, and quality insights.
- Own enterprise release certification, including readiness criteria, quality gates, executive reporting, risk escalation, and go/no-go recommendations.
- Drive reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, smoke testing, post-release validation, and production quality practices for critical workflows and integrations.
- Define quality metrics, dashboards, and governance routines to provide visibility into validation progress, dependency risk, defect trends, release readiness, and production outcomes.
- Build and develop a high-performing quality engineering team while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, test engineering, systems integration, technology delivery, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or enterprise-scale quality engineering capabilities.
- Proven experience leading end-to-end testing, integration testing, release validation, or enterprise quality certification in complex environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of test strategy, automation, integration validation, production validation, defect analysis, risk assessment, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness.
- Experience validating complex workflows across applications, platforms, APIs, data flows, and distributed systems, including reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, observability, or operational readiness practices.
- Experience leveraging data, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled practices to improve quality insights, test effectiveness, risk detection, and release readiness.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, and influencing skills in a matrixed environment.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with enterprise transformation, platform modernization, cloud migration, or digital product delivery initiatives.
- Familiarity with modern architectures, including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and distributed systems.
- Experience with test automation, service virtualization, test data management, environment management, observability, synthetic monitoring, production validation, or operational readiness.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, quality metrics, dashboards, scorecards, or executive readiness reporting.
- Familiarity with enterprise release governance, change management, compliance, secure software delivery, and operational risk controls.
Skills
- Quality Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Test Engineering
- Systems Integration
- Technology Delivery
- Integration Assurance
- Release Certification
- Automation
- Resiliency Testing
- Production Quality Validation
- AI-enabled quality engineering
- Test Strategy
- Automation Strategy
- Test Data Management
- Environment Readiness
- Agile
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Release Management
- Production Readiness
- API Validation
- Data Flow Validation
- Distributed Systems Validation
- Reliability
- Resiliency
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Observability
- Operational Readiness
- Data Analytics
- AI-enabled practices
- Executive Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-Solving
- Influencing Skills
- Microservices
- APIs
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Cloud-Native Platforms
- Data Pipelines
- Service Virtualization
- Secure Software Delivery
- Operational Risk Controls
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Work-At-Home
- Remote
Experience Level
- 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, test engineering, systems integration, technology delivery, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or enterprise-scale quality engineering capabilities.
Salary/Compensations
- $156,600 - $215,400 per year
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job
- Bi-weekly payment for internet expense (for associates in CA, IL, MT, or SD)
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
- It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.
- This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
