Acentra Health

Modernizes public healthcare with claims solutions

Staff Engineer 2 - Quality Engineering

Test Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeChennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

10-12 years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering in test, automation architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Expert-level automation framework design and hands-on engineering experience across multiple application and service layers.
Advanced understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning testing practices, autonomous testing concepts, self-healing automation, and responsible artificial intelligence governance.
Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated, mission-critical, or highly integrated systems.
Strong knowledge of performance engineering, security testing, compliance-aware testing, and production quality signals.
Proven ability to influence architecture, standards, technical direction, and cross-functional execution without direct authority.
Strong business acumen, communication, technical writing, and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

Define quality engineering strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and measurable quality objectives for a product, platform, or domain.
Lead complex testing initiatives such as platform modernization, migration, interoperability, data transformation, large releases, or new product launches.
Architect automation ecosystems across user interface, application programming interface, data, integration, service, performance, security, accessibility, and compliance dimensions.
Evaluate, select, and integrate quality tools, autonomous testing capabilities, self-healing automation, and artificial intelligence-enabled productivity accelerators.
Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design reviews, testability assessments, operational readiness, and release governance.
Influence cross-team quality standards, documentation, reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering best practices.
Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and contribute to communities of practice, technical guilds, publications, demonstrations, and knowledge assets.
Partner with security, compliance, product, engineering, operations, and client-facing teams to ensure healthcare quality requirements are addressed early.
Use data and metrics to identify systemic quality trends, investment priorities, return on investment opportunities, and quality transformation outcomes.
Design autonomous testing ecosystems; apply agentic artificial intelligence workflows and multi-large language model orchestration where approved; establish responsible artificial intelligence testing patterns and governance guardrails.

Desired Qualifications

Healthcare technology experience across payer, provider, clinical, case management, claims, eligibility, interoperability, or government health systems.
Experience contributing to shared quality platforms, engineering enablement, innovation labs, patents, publications, or conference presentations.
Advanced certification in artificial intelligence quality engineering, cloud, security, performance engineering, or test architecture.

Company Overview

Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. Our mission is to innovate health solutions that deliver maximum value and impact.

Lead the Way is our rallying cry at Acentra Health. Think of it as an open invitation to embrace the mission of the company; to actively engage in problem-solving; and to take ownership of your work every day. Acentra Health offers you unparalleled opportunities. In fact, you have all you need to take charge of your career and accelerate better outcomes – making this a great time to join our team of passionate individuals dedicated to being a vital partner for health solutions in the public sector.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Acentra Health is seeking a Staff Quality Engineer to define and drive quality engineering strategy for a product domain, platform, or major healthcare solution area. This role blends deep technical expertise, domain leadership, innovation, architecture influence, and advanced AI-enabled quality engineering practices.

• Define quality engineering strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and measurable quality objectives for a product, platform, or domain.

• Lead complex testing initiatives such as platform modernization, migration, interoperability, data transformation, large releases, or new product launches.

• Architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, integration, service, performance, security, accessibility, and compliance dimensions.

• Evaluate, select, and integrate quality tools, autonomous testing capabilities, self-healing automation, and AI-enabled productivity accelerators.

• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design reviews, testability assessments, operational readiness, and release governance.

• Influence cross-team quality standards, documentation, reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering best practices.

• Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and contribute to communities of practice, technical guilds, publications, demos, and knowledge assets.

• Partner with security, compliance, product, engineering, operations, and client-facing teams to ensure healthcare quality requirements are addressed early.

• Use data and metrics to identify systemic quality trends, investment priorities, ROI opportunities, and quality transformation outcomes.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering in test, automation architecture, or related technical leadership roles.

• Expert-level automation framework design and hands-on engineering experience across multiple application and service layers.

• Advanced understanding of AI/ML testing practices, autonomous testing concepts, self-healing automation, and responsible AI governance.

• Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated, mission-critical, or highly integrated systems.

• Strong knowledge of performance engineering, security testing, compliance-aware testing, and production quality signals.

• Proven ability to influence architecture, standards, technical direction, and cross-functional execution without direct authority.

• Strong business acumen, communication, technical writing, and stakeholder influence skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare technology experience across payer, provider, clinical, case management, claims, eligibility, interoperability, or government health systems.

• Experience contributing to shared quality platforms, engineering enablement, innovation labs, patents, publications, or conference presentations.

• Advanced certification in AI-QE, cloud, security, performance engineering, or test architecture.

AI and Automation Expectations

• Design autonomous testing ecosystems; apply agentic AI workflows and multi-LLM orchestration where approved; establish responsible AI testing patterns and governance guardrails.

Success Measures

• Quality strategy adopted across product/domain teams with measurable improvements.

• Reusable automation, platforms, or tools that improve speed, coverage, reliability, and compliance confidence.

• Successful delivery of complex healthcare initiatives with clear risk visibility and reduced production issues.

• Visible technical leadership through standards, mentoring, thought leadership, and cross-team influence.

• Responsible AI-QE adoption with governance, traceability, and value measurement.

About the Company

Acentra Health

Modernizes public healthcare with claims solutions

Acentra Health helps public-sector health programs run better by combining deep knowledge of government health programs with clinical expertise and technology. It designs and delivers software and services for claims, encounter, and provider data to improve processing efficiency and reduce costs, while offering care-management and quality-oversight services that focus on clinically informed decision making. Its products connect providers, payers, and government agencies to streamline workflows and oversight across state and federal programs. The company differentiates itself through its blend of public-sector know-how, clinical focus, and technology, accelerated by the backing of Carlyle, with a goal of delivering measurable outcomes for priority populations. Overall, Acentra Health aims to improve health outcomes, increase program efficiency, and lower costs for government healthcare programs.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: McLean, VA
Founded: 2023

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