Lead Quality Process and Automation Engineer - IntelliScript (Remote)

What We Do

Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance, health IT and life sciences clients. We’re a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.

Candidates who have their pick of jobs are drawn to IntelliScript’s entrepreneurial and collaborative culture of innovation, excellence, exceptional customer service, balance, and transparency. Every single person has a voice in our company, and we challenge each other to push the outer limits of our full, diverse potential. And we’ve shown sustained growth that ensures you’ll have room to grow your skillset, responsibilities, and career.

Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our website to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact, and sustainability.

What this position entails

IntelliScript’s Information Technology team has been a key part of our success and is critical to our future. In this role, you will be responsible for defining our overall quality roadmap, with an emphasis on transitioning from manual to automated testing. You will also be responsible for identifying opportunities for more immediate process improvements that can enhance our testing efficiency and effectiveness. 

Your role will entail mentoring and coaching of our quality assurance engineers, pairing with them and our development teams, and collaboration across the practice. You will work closely with the development, product, and operations teams to ensure that our quality objectives are aligned with our business goals and customer expectations. You will also be expected to define and implement quality metrics, standards, and best practices, and monitor and report on the quality performance and issues. This role involves hands-on automation in our quality space, as well as strategic planning for how we advance our people, processes, and technologies as we expand and modernize our applications. 

What you’ll be doing

• Plan, develop, and execute IntelliScript’s strategic quality and automation road map that aligns with business objectives and customer needs
• Mentor, support, and pair with teams implementing test automation, including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing
• Manage one or more automation engineers while facilitating collaboration across our quality assurance engineers embedded in scrum teams
• Lead tactical initiatives to guide development teams toward best practices and increased automation
• Drive the evaluation and documentation of 3rd-party testing tools, and help define the strategy for their integration into the overall test plan
• Work with the development teams to create standardized documentation and test management procedures
• Oversee the code deployment process, guiding development teams on building in quality and automation to ensure smooth deployments to production.

What we need                                                                                 

• 10+ years of experience in automated and manual testing (related degrees / certifications a plus), with strong knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Prior experience with leading by influence and mentoring team members
• Experience building and testing in AWS
• Experience elevating the quality practices of software development teams, pertaining to both legacy stack and future modernization
• Experience with full software development lifecycle practices
• Ability to ramp up quickly on both new technologies and existing technologies
• Excelle