Software Engineering Advisor

We are looking for a Software Engineering Advisor who is excited to build highquality automated technology solutions that help our teams move faster with this role you will shape engineering practices across Core Technology Solutions & Engineering driving improvements that elevate quality reliability and speed. You will collaborate with engineering operations and product partners to design automation strategies strengthen system performance and influence how user stories and technical requirements are defined. Your expertise will help our teams scale learn and deliver at a high level.

Responsibilities

• Design develop and unit test software applications that align with engineering standards and quality expectations.
• Drive process improvements across the Provider and Core Technology Solutions & Engineering organization organization partnering closely with Operations and Technology Product Management.
• Promote proactive quality engineering practices with a focus on preventing defects rather than detecting them later.
• Strengthen user story maturity using data and feedback to improve completeness clarity and acceptance criteria.
• Build and evolve heatmapping tools that help prioritize Quality and Development Engineering effort for the most impactful system interfaces.
• Partner with engineers and technical leaders to guide the use of best practices industry standards and automation strategies.
• Mentor and coach team members to build capability confidence and technical depth across the organization.
• Lead the advancement of automation suites harnesses and tooling to increase reliability and repeatability.
• Use empirical data to refine engineering plans enhance design decisions and improve how work is defined and delivered.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software automation testing and quality engineering.
• 3 years of experience working in Agile environments.
• Proven expertise with automation tools and frameworks including Selenium Cucumber Java Cypress and Robot Framework (Python).
• Strong understanding of objectoriented programming and relational databases.
• Experience using GitHub or other version control tools.
• Strong analytical skills attention to detail and the ability to organize and prioritize work in a fastpaced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities with a positive growthoriented mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred not required).
• Experience within the healthcare domain.
• Mobile automation experience.
• Knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Exposure to cloud technologies including AWS services such as DynamoDB S3 and Lambda.
• Familiarity with Pega applications.

About The Cigna Group

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color age disability sex childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status religion national origin ancestry marital or familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances.