Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernising the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work

About The Role

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

You will join a team of data scientists, product owners and analysts who are responsible for building the pricing platform for over $100 Billion of prescription drug spend in the US Market. The team bring integrity, experience and calmness to what is a mammoth business. We have thousands of US clients, each with thousands of FDA approved drug prices to be managed. We are using our predictive models to optimize millions of individual drug prices to ensure we deliver value for clients and ultimately people who are filling over 150 million prescriptions per year.

We are accountable to manage one of the most complex areas of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world. We have to bring initiative, innovative thinking and curiosity to constantly evolve in a highly regulated environment. The changes we make have impact the next day for millions of people in the US market.

Our team culture is built on trust. We give our team the space they need to deliver results and the environment to ensure they can have fun doing it.

As an Associate Pricing Quality Analyst, you will work as part of a team to improve the speed and quality of our pricing solutions by executing and automating testing of the solutions including tests on prediction models. You are a curious, diligent and detailed person who has a keen interest in technology and coding. You might see this role as a stepping stone to a future role as a developer, data scientist, data analyst, senior quality analyst or business analyst.

Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop testing scripts and build out automated testing for pricing solutions including testing for predictive models
• Supports the development team or operations by providing analysis and expertise throughout the SDLC
• Execute manual and automated testing
• Debug and identify root causes of problems in desired product/process. Recommends and/or implements corrective measures or solutions
• Collaborate with other business units to understand how automation can improve testing, improve testing processes and implement the same.
• Define and refine test criteria and testing in detail
• Define test cases, scenarios and scripts
• Plan and track testing with stakeholders
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Academic or other experience writing Python and SQL code
• Experience creating Excel tools/outputs
• Experience collaborating, eliciting information and problem solving
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken
• Team player that can successfully manage multiple activities, assess priorities and achieve solutions under tight deadlines for themselves
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with data science and analytics solutions
• Experience with VBA
• Experience working within a team applying the Agile framework
• Experience contributing production code including code version management
• Experience working with Azure or other cloud platforms
  
  

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.