Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana offers a wide range of insurance products and health and wellness services. Humana is dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first. Humana associates are at the heart of creating and providing positive healthcare experience for its members. The firm is seeking innovative professionals who are passionate about making a positive change in the lives of others. Humana recruits undergraduate and graduate level students for internships and full-time opportunities, and is devoted to hiring veterans in all areas of its business as well. When joining the team, you will have the chance to benefit from a bunch of incentives including a competitive base pay, medical, dental and vision benefits, life insurance, 401(k), paternity leave, and several other.
DescriptionThe Associate Director, Automation Engineering identifies and implements solutions (hardware and software) for improvement of the high-quality automation infrastructure. The Associate Director, Automation Engineering requires a solid understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across department(s).
ResponsibilitiesHumana is seeking an Associate Director, Enterprise Test Automation and Performance Test & Engineering, who will
- Own Test automation as a hybrid competency and strategy for IT and Business. Manage centralized test automation resources (SDETs) for both IT and Business.
- Drive transformation for test automation, enterprise selenium framework for IT and several tools for Business Test Automation
- Experience in Advance Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin language like Cucumber, Model Based Testing tools like TOSCA
- Own Performance Testing and Engineering as a centralized competency and strategy for IT and Business.
- Drive transformation for performance testing and engineering, evaluate non-centralized and create roadmap for improvements. Define training and standards for longer term shift to decentralization (3-5 years)
- Create strategy, roadmap and standards for Test Automation and Performance testing for cloud migration and cloud native.
- Influence leaders in IT and Business on strategy, best practices, budget needs and staffing for Test Automation and Performance Testing
- Identify, select and implement tools, process and people to support both of these competencies.
- Very high level of autonomy and ability to leverage communication and metrics to drive outcomes.
- Manage a team 50+ technical members including associates and contractors
- Communicate, coordinate and align automation strategy with the engineering team members, make recommendations to improve reliability, best practices and processes
- Adoption of Test Automation throughout IT and Business, Knowledge around competency, implementation of advanced techniques and standards.
- Improvement of application and infrastructure performance.
- Adoption of performance testing best practices through IT and Business, Knowledge around competency.
- Faster speed to market through continuous automation and improved quality.
- Improve product delivery cycles through the integration of testing into the agile delivery cycle
Required Qualifications:- 10+ years of relevant experience in software QA testing and automation
- 5+ years of experience leading Enterprise Test Automation, Performance Testing and Development within cloud or advanced techniques.
- Strong Experiencing in defining automation and performance test strategy at enterprise level.
- Deep knowledge of test automation frameworks, performance testing tools
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, and building test automation into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in an Agile Development environment
- Strong background implementing and/or using industry standard performance testing and automation tools (HP Performance Center, Jmeter, etc)
- Experience using performance profiling and logging tools (App Dynamics, Splunk, etc)
- Experience driving large adoption or implementation of new technology
- Advanced Communication around new and emerging technology
- Ability to drive ideas from concept to successful implementation and maintenance
- Holding people accountable not in direct line and in most cases above their level in the organization
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- Experience working and managing teams in remote and multiple locations test teams and travel
- Health care domain knowledge
- Experience with cloud services such as AWS
- Experience working as a self-starter in a fast-paced environment with the confidence to make choices and move forward.
- Experience in managing and tracking budgets
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