Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering

Humana

Director of Enterprise Quality Engineering at Humana leading enterprise quality validation and integration assurance. Overseeing quality metrics, team development, and cross-platform integrations.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeNew York City • Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $156,600 - $215,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and 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 and long-term disability
life insurance and many other opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

quality engineeringtest engineeringintegration testingrelease validationtest strategyautomationdefect analysisrisk assessmentAgileCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipexecutive communicationstakeholder managementanalytical skillsproblem-solvinginfluencing skillscollaborationcontinuous improvementaccountabilitytechnical excellence