[Hiring] Principal, Software Engineering @Humana

Role Description

The Principal, Automation Engineer, Tools Support & Onboarding is a senior hands-on technical leader responsible for enabling, supporting, and advancing enterprise Quality Engineering (QE) tools, automation platforms, and onboarding capabilities across Humana. This role serves as a trusted technical advisor to Quality Engineering, Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Architecture teams, ensuring successful adoption, integration, and utilization of enterprise testing and automation solutions.

The Principal Automation Engineer will lead the implementation and support of enterprise quality engineering tools and platforms, establish best practices, drive tool standardization, and enable teams to maximize the value of automation and testing investments.

This individual will be responsible for supporting and optimizing technologies such as Azure DevOps (ADO), qTest, Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, Playwright, API automation frameworks, CI/CD platforms, AI-enabled testing solutions, and related quality engineering tools while improving delivery efficiency, quality, traceability, and governance.

This role functions as a senior technical leader and subject matter expert, ensuring consistent tool adoption, onboarding processes, training programs, integration standards, operational support, and continuous improvement across Humana's quality engineering ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 12+ years of Quality Engineering, Test Management, Automation Engineering, SDET, or Software Engineering experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience implementing, supporting, administering, or enabling enterprise testing and automation tools.
• Deep expertise with enterprise quality engineering tools including:
  • Azure DevOps (ADO)
  • qTest
  • Tricentis Tosca
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • API Testing and Automation Tools
  • CI/CD Platforms
• Experience supporting tool integrations across test management, automation, requirements, release management, and DevOps ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Delivery practices.
• Experience leading onboarding, enablement, training, adoption, and support initiatives for enterprise engineering tools.
• Excellent communication, leadership, consulting, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience implementing AI-driven testing tools and intelligent automation platforms.
• Experience evaluating and conducting proof-of-concepts for enterprise software platforms and testing technologies.
• Knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and AI-assisted software testing.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience supporting enterprise-wide quality engineering, test management, or DevOps transformation initiatives.

Benefits

• 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.

Company Description

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.