{"id":1139277,"url":"https://alion.io/job/the-cigna-group-qa-testing-lead-analyst","title":"QA & Testing Lead Analyst","company":{"id":13928,"name":"The Cigna Group","domain":"thecignagroup.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/thecignagroup","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":50,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.58,"repost_share":0.02,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":22000,"max_usd":62000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":154},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Copilot","optional":true},{"name":"Databricks","optional":true},{"name":"DataStage","optional":true},{"name":"dbt","optional":true},{"name":"Informatica","optional":true},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":true},{"name":"Talend","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T09:53:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T13:46:33Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Cigna\nCigna Healthcare exists to improve lives. Together, with our global workforce, we are committed to making healthcare more affordable, predictable, and simple. As part of our continued growth and transformation, we are investing in modern Quality Engineering practices, automation, and AI enabled testing capabilities to support the delivery of high quality digital solutions for our customers.\nThe Position\nWe are looking for an experienced Data Services Test Lead to provide technical leadership and oversight of Data Testing activities across Data Services teams.\nThis role will act as the Data Testing subject matter expert across Data Services, providing guidance on ETL Testing, test automation, test strategy, and quality assurance practices. The role will work closely with Data Testers across multiple Data Services teams to promote consistent testing approaches, review testing and automation practices, challenge ineffective approaches, and help resolve complex Data Testing and Data Quality issues.\nA key focus of the role is ensuring robust end to end validation of data throughout the full data lifecycle, helping teams strengthen testing practices and increase confidence in the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of data solutions.\nKey Responsibilities\nReview and challenge testing strategies, requirements coverage, test coverage, and testing approaches to ensure appropriate validation of source data, transformation logic, integrations, business rules, and downstream impacts.\nProvide technical leadership, guidance, and support to Data Testers and stakeholders on Data Testing approaches, ETL testing practices, quality controls, tooling, automation, and industry best practices.\nSupport teams in resolving complex Data Testing and Data Quality challenges across ETL, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, Reporting, and Analytics solutions.\nEstablish and promote standards for end-to-end data flow testing, source to target validation, data reconciliation, data integrity verification, and regression testing.\nPerform detailed reviews of ETL testing approaches, SQL validation techniques, source to target mappings, reconciliation methods, and automation solutions to ensure effective and consistent testing practices across Data Services teams.\nEstablish standards for source to target mapping reviews, test data validation, and end to end data integrity verification across Data Services solutions.\nDrive adoption of Data Testing automation, automated reconciliation, and modern quality engineering practices to improve testing effectiveness and efficiency.\nConduct technical reviews of testing approaches, test evidence, automation solutions, reconciliation controls, and quality checks to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities to improve Data Testing effectiveness.\nEstablish standards for defect management, root cause analysis, defect reporting, and continuous improvement activities.\nBuild strong relationships with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects, Scrum Masters, and business stakeholders to understand priorities, address risks, and improve quality outcomes.\nRequired Skills and Experience\nExtensive experience leading ETL, Data Integration, Data Warehouse, and Data Platform testing activities.\nExtensive experience in Data Testing, ETL Testing, Data Quality, or Data Quality Engineering roles.\nExperience validating ETL processes, source to target mappings, transformation logic, data reconciliation, business rules, and end to end data flows, including transaction level validation and downstream system verification.\nStrong SQL skills with experience performing complex data analysis, validation, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.\nExperience testing Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Migration, Reporting, Analytics, and Data Platform solutions.\nExperience reviewing and challenging testing approaches to ensure adequate coverage of data transformations, integrations, downstream impacts, quality controls, and business risks.\nStrong understanding of data lineage, data integrity controls, transaction level validation, and end to end data validation principles.\nStrong understanding of Data Testing methodologies, Data Quality frameworks, and Quality Engineering best practices.\nExperience driving Data Testing automation, automated reconciliation, and quality improvement initiatives.\nExperience defining and implementing Data Testing standards, frameworks, and technical best practices across multiple delivery teams.\nExperience supporting multiple Agile delivery teams and influencing quality outcomes across complex delivery environments.\nStrong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.\nStrong analytical, problem solving, risk management, and continuous improvement mindset.\nDesirable Skills and Experience\nExperience working within Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, or other regulated industries.\nExperience with cloud data platforms and technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse, Informatica, Talend, DataStage, dbt, or similar solutions.\nExperience with Data Testing automation frameworks, quality engineering practices, and CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience evaluating emerging technologies, innovation initiatives, and Proof of Concepts.\nExperience leveraging AI enabled solutions to improve Data Testing, analysis, reporting, or Quality Engineering practices.\nProfessional certifications in Data Quality, Data Management, Quality Engineering, Testing, Agile, or related disciplines.\nCertifications or recognised training in Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, AWS AI, or related AI technologies.\nAbout The Cigna Group\nCigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6077,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Care"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T09:53:05Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T16:05:56Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-cigna-group-qa-testing-lead-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-cigna-group-qa-testing-lead-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T16:05:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}