Lead Quality Engineer

Become a part of our caring community   The Lead Quality Engineer leads the quality assurance and testing strategy for Medicaid Clinical platforms and integrations, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and operate reliably across pre-production and production environments. This role leads a team of testers while establishing scalable testing processes, standards, and automation capabilities across functional, regression, integration, configuration, and production validation testing. This role exercises independent judgment on complex issues, escalates barriers and risks as appropriate, and communicates testing progress and quality considerations to management and executive stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Delivery • Lead a team of testers by establishing priorities, responsibilities, and accountability for testing deliverables. • Coach and develop team members while promoting collaboration, cross-training, knowledge sharing, and consistent testing practices. • Support hiring, onboarding, and training of testing team members. • Manage team capacity and testing assignments based on business priorities, release schedules, complexity, and risk. • Coordinate testing coverage for scheduled production releases, including applicable night or early-morning testing. Quality Engineering & Testing • Define and maintain the testing strategy for the Medicaid Clinical platform. • Lead functional, regression, integration, configuration, end-to-end, and production validation testing. • Establish standards for test cases, test scenarios, test data, execution, and supporting evidence. • Review business and functional requirements to identify testing needs, risks, and gaps. • Develop and maintain automated test suites and expand automation opportunities to improve testing efficiency, scalability, and coverage. • Evaluate test results, defects, and risks to provide release-readiness recommendations. Defect Management & Collaboration • Lead defect triage and establish standards for documenting, prioritizing, retesting, and resolving defects. • Partner with Product, Business Systems Analysis, developers, vendors, and clinical stakeholders to investigate and resolve quality issues. • Serve as a liaison for new testing requests, assessing scope, priorities, dependencies, and resource needs. • Communicate testing progress, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release readiness to stakeholders and leadership. Continuous Improvement • Monitor test coverage, execution progress, defect trends, and automation effectiveness. • Analyze recurring defects and testing gaps to identify opportunities for process and quality improvements. • Develop repeatable testing processes that improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability. • Recommend improvements to workflows, configurations, requirements, and testing procedures based on testing findings. Use your skills to make an impact   Required Qualifications • 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, quality engineering, application testing, or a related technology field. • 2 - 3 years' experience creating, reviewing, executing, and validating test cases and test scenarios. • Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test suites. • Experience with defect identification, documentation, triage, retesting, and resolution. • Experience working in an Agile delivery environment. • Experience leading functional, regression, integration, and configuration testing. • Ability to manage competing priorities, establish scalable processes, and exercise independent judgment with minimal supervision. Preferred Qualifications • Experience directly leading a testing or quality engineering team, including coaching, work allocation, capacity plannin