Principal Software Engineer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and optimization of complex software systems
• Define and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and quality benchmarks across platforms
• Ensure system designs are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable
• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance for new development, enhancements, and modernization initiatives
• Drive quality engineering strategy across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Ensure quality is built into every stage of design, development, testing, and deployment-not treated as a post‑development activity
• Establish and monitor quality metrics, defect trends, and engineering KPIs
• Champion automation-first approaches for testing, validation, monitoring, and regression coverage
• Influence engineering outcomes at a platform or multi‑product level, rather than a single application or team
• Identify systemic risks, quality gaps, and performance issues and proactively drive corrective actions
• Design and promote reusable frameworks, shared services, and common utilities that improve consistency and efficiency across teams
• Innovation, Tools, and Continuous Improvement
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, techniques, and engineering strategies to improve software quality and delivery velocity
• Lead initiatives for automation of repetitive or manual tasks, improving developer productivity and operational efficiency
• Contribute to research and development efforts, piloting emerging technologies and modern engineering practices
• Continuously assess industry trends to identify opportunities to apply technology in new, innovative, and scalable ways
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• B.E. (Computer Engineering) or equivalent from reputed engineering colleges
• 12+ years of relevant software lifecycle experience specifically focusing on Automation Testing & platform validation
• 8+ years of hands-on experience of API & UI automation tests
• 3+ years of working experience in managing quality team members
• Experience with Kubernetes & automated codeable deployments
• Having knowledge of mobile testing with simulator farming test capabilities
• Having knowledge on REST and Spring Boot over any Cloud
• Having knowledge on Perf testing covering Jmeter API
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle
• Proven expertise for Cypress, Playwright based test automations
• Proven DynamoDB/any other No-SQL exposure
• Proven exposure to AWS services, Lambda & containerization
• Proven sound fundamentals of Core Java & type script with automation & tech stack migrations
• Technically hands-on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing
  • Product/Project/Program Related Tech Stack:
  • Back End:  Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, REST, AWS
  • Middleware:  Kafka & its ecosystem, Cassandra/NoSQL
  • Testing:  JUnit, Gatling , Cypress, Playwright
  • DevOps:  Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Sonar, Fortify
  • Others: JMeter, Groovy
  • Development Methodology/Engineering Practices Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN)

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.