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The role defines the test framework spanning the New PBM Platform, retained and modernized ESI systems, enterprise integrations, and client re-implementation activities. Working across both the build of new capability and the integration and re-implementation of existing systems, this Principal will establish common standards for test scope, sequencing, automation, data, environments, evidence, and readiness criteria so that quality decisions are consistent across the full delivery lifecycle.\nThis role partners with the Build Quality Lead, Integration and End-to-End Test Lead, PBM Test Lead, PBS Test Lead , platform and product engineering, enterprise architecture, delivery, security, infrastructure, and business readiness teams. The Principal provides direction on the most complex quality and testing matters, resolves issues with limited organizational precedent, and translates technical risk into clear recommendations for senior leaders and release-governance forums.\nCore Responsibilities Include\nTest Strategy & Architecture\nDefine and maintain the program’s end-to-end test strategy, architecture, operating model, and multi-year quality roadmap.\nEstablish standards for unit, contract, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, resilience, security, data-conversion, migration, and operational-readiness testing.\nDefine the release ladder, entry and exit criteria, evidence standards, sign-off expectations, and traceability requirements used across every delivery team in the program.\nCreate reusable testing patterns and reference architectures that support platform scale, frequent releases, and successive client waves.\nEnsure test architecture aligns with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, compliance, environment, and data-handling requirements.\nQuality Governance & Readiness\nProvide technical governance for quality decisions and independently assess whether test evidence supports progression through readiness gates.\nEstablish quality scorecards, risk indicators, defect measures, and executive reporting that present a clear view of release and migration readiness.\nDefine severity, triage, root-cause, risk-acceptance, and exception-management practices across the program.\nIdentify systemic quality risks and drive corrective actions that improve prevention, detection, and recovery.\nAdvise leaders on quality tradeoffs, unresolved risks, and the evidence required for go/no-go decisions.\nAutomation, Test Data & AI-Assisted Quality \nOwn the test automation strategy for the program, covering framework and tooling selection, the balance of coverage from unit through end-to-end, pipeline integration, and the standards that keep automation maintainable as the platform changes.\nDefine the test data strategy, including synthetic data generation, masking and de-identification of production-derived data, provisioning and refresh models across shared environments, and the controls that keep PHI and client data handled appropriately.\nDefine how testing is performed within an AI-assisted software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC), including the use of AI-generated tests, test data, and defect analysis, the human review required before generated assets are trusted, and how traceability back to requirements is preserved.\nEstablish the evidence automation approach so readiness evidence is produced as a byproduct of the pipeline rather than assembled by hand.\nSet the standard for what good automation looks like, including stability and flakiness thresholds, execution time, and the decision rules for when a manual test remains the right answer.\nCross-Program Technical Leadership\nPartner with the Build Quality Lead to ensure in-factory testing executes against the program strategy and quality bar.\nPartner with the Integration and End-to-End Test Lead to ensure cross-estate and client-wave testing produces complete, reliable evidence.\nSet direction for the PBM Test Lead on testing of new platform capability, confirming that in-factory coverage, automation, and evidence meet the program standard before capability leaves the build teams.\nSet direction for the PBS Test Lead on testing across the existing estate, confirming that regression of current systems, integration across both estates, and client-wave testing produce evidence that holds at the readiness gate.\nConvene the PBM and PBS Test Leads on a standing cadence to resolve seam issues, including shared environments, test data spanning both estates, defect ownership when a failure crosses the boundary, and whose schedule wins when test windows collide.\nAlign platform, product, integration, migration, and business testing into one coherent strategy and sequence.\nMentor architects, engineers, and quality professionals and elevate test engineering capability across the program.\nEvaluate emerging testing tools and techniques and make the adoption call where they measurably improve quality, cycle time, or cost of testing.\nCritical Leadership Competencies\nDrives Vision and Purpose: Connects the role’s work to the broader PBM transformation objectives and communicates a clear path forward.\nDelivers Results: Creates accountability, removes barriers, and drives measurable outcomes under demanding timelines.\nManages Complexity: Synthesizes complex and sometimes conflicting information to establish practical solutions.\nDecision Quality: Makes sound, timely decisions using technical, delivery, risk, and business considerations.\nCollaborates: Builds effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, product, delivery, and business teams.\nCommunicates Effectively: Provides clear, concise, and audience-appropriate communications, recommendations, and escalations.\nManages Ambiguity: Establishes direction and momentum where requirements, solutions, or precedents are still emerging.\nInstills Trust: Builds credibility through transparency, expertise, follow-through, and sound judgment.\nCritical Technology Competencies\nDeep expertise in enterprise test architecture, quality engineering, automation strategy, and software-delivery controls.\nExperience designing test approaches for complex distributed platforms, APIs, event-driven integrations, data pipelines, and legacy-modern ecosystems.\nStrong knowledge of performance, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, security, accessibility, and other non-functional testing disciplines.\nExperience with test data management, environment strategy, service virtualization, observability, CI/CD integration, and evidence automation.\nAbility to assess emerging testing tools and AI-enabled techniques while maintaining appropriate security, privacy, compliance, and validation controls.\nHands-on experience testing cloud-native workloads on AWS, including containerized and serverless services, managed data and messaging services, and the observability tooling used to diagnose failures such as CloudWatch and X-Ray.\nDepth in test automation tooling across layers, such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress at the interface level, REST Assured, Karate, or Postman at the API level, and JUnit, TestNG, or pytest at the unit and component level, with the judgment to standardize rather than accumulate frameworks.\nExperience with performance and resilience tooling such as JMeter, Gatling, k6, or LoadRunner, and with contract testing and service virtualization such as Pact, WireMock, or commercial equivalents.\nExperience with test data management tooling such as Delphix, Informatica TDM, GenRocket, or Tonic, including masking, subsetting, and synthetic generation for regulated data.\nExperience with test management and traceability tooling such as Jira with Xray or Zephyr, qTest, or TestRail, and with embedding quality and security gates in CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Harness, alongside scanning tools such as SonarQube, Snyk, or Checkmarx.\nPractical experience with AI-assisted engineering tooling such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, or Cursor, and with AI-enabled testing capabilities including generated test cases and data, self-healing automation, and visual validation.\nProducts named above are illustrative of the depth expected in each category rather than individually required.\nAbility to translate highly technical findings into concise, decision-ready recommendations for executive and governance audiences.\nQualifications \nBachelor's degree or equivalent related experience required; advanced degree preferred.\n10+ years of progressive experience in software testing, quality engineering, technology architecture, or related disciplines.\nDemonstrated experience defining enterprise-scale test strategies and governing quality across multiple engineering and delivery organizations.\nProven success influencing senior technical leaders and executives without relying on direct authority.\nExperience supporting large-scale platform transformation, systems integration, or enterprise migration programs.\nHands-on experience building and governing test automation at enterprise scale, including framework design, CI/CD integration, and test data management under regulated data constraints.\nExperience testing within an AI-assisted software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC), including AI-generated tests and test data, and the validation and traceability controls required to rely on them.\nStrong written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills.\nExperience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, regulated technology, or similarly complex transaction-processing environments preferred.\nIf you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 151,600 - 252,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.\nThis role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.\nAt The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.\nAbout The Cigna Group\nDoing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.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.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email  for assistance. 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