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Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that enable exceptional member and provider experiences.The Associate Director, Segment Quality Engineering is a people and delivery leader responsible for executing quality engineering practices across a defined set of products, applications, or delivery teams within Humana's technology portfolio. Reporting to the Director, Segment Quality Engineering, this role leads quality engineering teams focused on delivery quality, test automation, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
This leader will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and enterprise quality teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and improve release confidence, delivery speed, and production stability. The Associate Director will help operationalize segment quality strategy through consistent execution, strong team leadership, and measurable quality outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality engineering execution for a defined set of applications, products, or agile teams within the segment portfolio.
- Manage, coach, and develop quality engineering leaders, engineers, and SDETs, with accountability for team performance, engagement, and growth.
- Implement quality engineering standards, practices, and governance established by segment and enterprise leadership.
- Drive quality planning and execution across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and release validation activities.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and delivery leaders to ensure quality is embedded in planning, design, development, and release processes.
- Oversee defect management activities, including triage coordination, trend analysis, root cause follow-up, and corrective action tracking.
- Support release readiness assessments and ensure validation activities are completed for production deployments.
- Advance automation adoption across assigned teams, including sustainable regression coverage and improved testing efficiency.
- Help integrate automated validations and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with engineering and platform teams.
- Coordinate non-functional quality support for assigned areas, including performance, resiliency, operational readiness, and security validation activities.
- Monitor quality metrics, delivery trends, and production outcomes to identify risks and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Escalate systemic quality concerns, portfolio risks, and capacity constraints to Director leadership as needed.
- Contribute to quality engineering modernization efforts through adoption of enterprise tools, reusable frameworks, and improved ways of working.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and promote innovative practices that improve speed, coverage, and reliability.
- Ensure responsible adoption of AI and compliance with applicable security, privacy, regulatory, and operational standards.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any other bachelor's degree combined with relevant equivalent industry experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, testing, or related technical disciplines.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing quality engineering, test automation, or software delivery teams in enterprise environments.
- Experience leading quality engineering activities across multiple agile teams or complex applications.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise quality tools, test automation, test management platforms, and engineering lifecycle tools.
- Demonstrated experience improving quality engineering practices, including automation, process improvement, and metrics-based execution.
- Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing approaches.
- Familiarity with distributed systems and modern application architectures.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and operational teams.
- Experience working in matrixed organizations and coordinating across distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with member, provider, digital experience, or enterprise platform domains.
- Knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience supporting non-functional testing, including performance and resiliency.
- Exposure to AI-enabled quality engineering or intelligent automation capabilities.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles, patterns, and standards across cloud, hybrid, on-premise, and SaaS environments.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled quality engineering or intelligent automation capabilities.
Success in this Role
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Strong quality execution across assigned products, applications, or delivery teams.
- Reduced escaped defects, rework, and production issues tied to delivery quality.
- Increased adoption and effectiveness of automation across assigned teams.
- Improved release readiness and more consistent quality signals in delivery workflows.
- Better adherence to quality standards, processes, and governance expectations.
- Positive stakeholder feedback from engineering, product, and delivery partners.
- Strong team engagement, talent development, and retention outcomes.
Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that enable exceptional member and provider experiences.The Associate Director, Segment Quality Engineering is a people and delivery leader responsible for executing quality engineering practices across a defined set of products, applications, or delivery teams within Humana's technology portfolio. Reporting to the Director, Segment Quality Engineering, this role leads quality engineering teams focused on delivery quality, test automation, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
This leader will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and enterprise quality teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and improve release confidence, delivery speed, and production stability. The Associate Director will help operationalize segment quality strategy through consistent execution, strong team leadership, and measurable quality outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality engineering execution for a defined set of applications, products, or agile teams within the segment portfolio.
- Manage, coach, and develop quality engineering leaders, engineers, and SDETs, with accountability for team performance, engagement, and growth.
- Implement quality engineering standards, practices, and governance established by segment and enterprise leadership.
- Drive quality planning and execution across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and release validation activities.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and delivery leaders to ensure quality is embedded in planning, design, development, and release processes.
- Oversee defect management activities, including triage coordination, trend analysis, root cause follow-up, and corrective action tracking.
- Support release readiness assessments and ensure validation activities are completed for production deployments.
- Advance automation adoption across assigned teams, including sustainable regression coverage and improved testing efficiency.
- Help integrate automated validations and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with engineering and platform teams.
- Coordinate non-functional quality support for assigned areas, including performance, resiliency, operational readiness, and security validation activities.
- Monitor quality metrics, delivery trends, and production outcomes to identify risks and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Escalate systemic quality concerns, portfolio risks, and capacity constraints to Director leadership as needed.
- Contribute to quality engineering modernization efforts through adoption of enterprise tools, reusable frameworks, and improved ways of working.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and promote innovative practices that improve speed, coverage, and reliability.
- Ensure responsible adoption of AI and compliance with applicable security, privacy, regulatory, and operational standards.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any other bachelor's degree combined with relevant equivalent industry experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, testing, or related technical disciplines.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing quality engineering, test automation, or software delivery teams in enterprise environments.
- Experience leading quality engineering activities across multiple agile teams or complex applications.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise quality tools, test automation, test management platforms, and engineering lifecycle tools.
- Demonstrated experience improving quality engineering practices, including automation, process improvement, and metrics-based execution.
- Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing approaches.
- Familiarity with distributed systems and modern application architectures.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and operational teams.
- Experience working in matrixed organizations and coordinating across distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with member, provider, digital experience, or enterprise platform domains.
- Knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience supporting non-functional testing, including performance and resiliency.
- Exposure to AI-enabled quality engineering or intelligent automation capabilities.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles, patterns, and standards across cloud, hybrid, on-premise, and SaaS environments.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled quality engineering or intelligent automation capabilities.
Success in this Role
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Strong quality execution across assigned products, applications, or delivery teams.
- Reduced escaped defects, rework, and production issues tied to delivery quality.
- Increased adoption and effectiveness of automation across assigned teams.
- Improved release readiness and more consistent quality signals in delivery workflows.
- Better adherence to quality standards, processes, and governance expectations.
- Positive stakeholder feedback from engineering, product, and delivery partners.
- Strong team engagement, talent development, and retention outcomes.
Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote associate director of engineering jobs.
- 7 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing and growing engineering teams of five or more
- Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong background in agile development methodologies and cross-functional delivery
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Experience partnering with product management to define roadmaps and prioritize engineering work
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Show your async leadership style upfront
Remote hiring managers want to see how you lead without a whiteboard. Add a line to your resume or cover letter that names the async tools you use, like Notion, Linear, or Loom, and describes how you've kept distributed engineering teams aligned on deliverables across time zones.
Prepare for the remote work screen
Most remote associate director of engineering interviews include a dedicated question on how you manage engineers you've never met in person. Have a specific example ready that covers your approach to written decision logs, async standups, and how you handle time-zone gaps when shipping critical features.
Target remote-first companies by default
Remote-first SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and distributed fintech companies post associate director of engineering roles that are designed for remote from the start, not converted from on-site. These roles come with clearer async workflows and better distributed-team tooling than hybrid conversions.
Remote Associate Director of Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote associate director of engineering job?
Remote employers screen associate director of engineering candidates heavily for self-direction, async written communication, and the ability to lead distributed teams without in-person oversight. Remote-first SaaS companies, fintech firms, and cloud infrastructure organizations are the most active remote hirers at this level. What gives candidates an edge is a clear record of shipping outcomes across time zones, comfort with asynchronous decision-making in tools like Confluence or Notion, and experience managing engineers they've never met in person.
Which companies hire remote associate director of engineerings?
Remote associate director of engineering roles are posted by Humana, INROADS, and Novartis and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology companies, high-growth SaaS businesses, and distributed fintech and healthcare technology firms are among the most consistent hirers of this role fully remotely.
Can you get a remote associate director of engineering job with no experience?
Yes, but remote associate director of engineering roles are harder to land without prior leadership experience because distributed teams rely on you to operate independently from day one. Entry paths include leading small remote engineering squads at early-stage startups, taking on interim technical lead responsibilities, or contributing async to open-source projects that demonstrate your ability to coordinate work across teams without direct supervision.
Do you need a degree for remote associate director of engineering jobs?
Not always. Remote employers at this level weigh demonstrated engineering leadership, a portfolio of shipped products or systems, and evidence of managing distributed teams far more heavily than a formal degree. Many remote-first companies focus on what you've built and how you've led engineers across locations, making a strong GitHub history or a record of scaled systems a credible substitute.
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