Software Developer IV Quality Engineering

Premera Blue Cross is a healthcare company focused on improving customers’ lives by making healthcare work better. The Software Developer IV Quality Engineering role leads healthcare-focused quality engineering, defining end-to-end testing requirements, test scenarios, data strategies, and compliance considerations while partnering with product, engineering, business, and testing teams. The role also provides technical oversight, governance, automation leadership, vendor oversight, mentoring, and strategic guidance.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and IT leaders to identify and understand multi-faceted problems or improvement opportunities
• Partner with the development teams, business partners, architecture, and customers to understand project requirements, provide technical excellence and oversight, and resolve technical challenges guaranteeing code quality
• Serve as the primary engineering and strategic implementation partners, ensuring clear, effective , and timely communication
• Oversee the review process of code, ensuring compliance with best practices, Premera standards, and architectural guidelines. Responsible for vendor oversight and code sign-off ensuring an effective relationship and high-quality outcomes of vendor work
• Analyze project data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance the delivery of software
• Train and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with company standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements
• Oversee engineering excellence and continuous automation. This includes testing associated with cross-functional project team and in-team efforts
• Act as technical and business leader sharing knowledge, and expertise with others inside team as well as with other customers. Proactively contribute to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community
• Stay current in best practices, technology trends and the organization’s business while mentoring and sharing knowledge gained with others. Maintain expertise in one or more technical areas. Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems
• Eight (8) years of software development experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages
• Experience in healthcare industry or a highly regulated environment
• Experience working with cloud solutions
• Technical knowledge and experience with specific technical tools used at Premera (i.e. Facets) or required for open position
• Previous experience in an Agile environment
• Exposure to API and service-based technologies
• Experience using and creating automated test tools