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Lead, Quality Engineer, Next Best Action
Humana INC · 🇺🇸 Louisville, KY
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 130 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Humana INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Senior Quality Engineer” (Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers) in KY: $104k–$109k, median $106k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Humana INC
The US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 130 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Become a part of our caring community Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that enable exceptional member and provider experiences. The Lead, Segment Quality Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for leading quality engineering efforts across key products, applications, and delivery initiatives within Humana’s technology portfolio. This role combines deep technical execution with project leadership, helping teams design, implement, and scale modern quality engineering practices that improve delivery quality, release confidence, and production stability. The Lead, Segment Quality Engineer partners closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and Quality Engineering leaders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This role is expected to actively contribute to test strategy, automation design and development, CI/CD quality integration, defect prevention, and validation execution while leading complex testing efforts across multiple teams and initiatives. Responsibilities • Serve as a hands-on quality engineering lead for complex projects, programs, and product initiatives across a defined segment portfolio. • Lead end-to-end quality engineering activities for assigned initiatives, including test planning, scope definition, environment coordination, execution oversight, and release validation. • Design, build, maintain, and improve automated test assets across API, UI, integration, end-to-end, and regression layers. • Partner with engineers to embed automated quality checks and validation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows. • Provide technical leadership on test architecture, automation frameworks, test data strategies, and validation approaches for modern applications and distributed systems. • Drive risk-based testing decisions by evaluating business impact, technical complexity, integration dependencies, and release timelines. • Lead defect triage activities for assigned initiatives, including issue analysis, prioritization support, root cause identification, and defect prevention recommendations. • Coordinate quality engineering execution across multiple agile teams to ensure aligned coverage, consistent standards, and timely delivery. • Support non-functional validation activities such as performance, resiliency, operational readiness, and security-related testing in alignment with enterprise expectations. • Ensure quality engineering work aligns with Humana standards for cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments. • Identify opportunities to improve test reliability, reduce manual effort, increase automation effectiveness, and strengthen quality signals throughout delivery. • Mentor engineers and team members on quality engineering tools, practices, coding standards, and automation patterns. • Contribute to reusable frameworks, shared assets, and standard ways of working that improve consistency and scalability across teams. • Monitor and communicate quality risks, test progress, release readiness, and key outcomes to project and engineering stakeholders. • Support production issue analysis and post-release learning to improve future delivery quality and reduce escaped defects. • Drive adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and promote innovative practices that improve speed, coverage, and reliability. • Ensure responsible adoption of AI and compliance with applicable security, privacy, regulatory, and operational standards. Use your skills to make an impact Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, test automation