The Role
Develops and enhances performance testing frameworks and scripts for Pega applications. Diagnoses performance issues, analyzes testing and monitoring results, recommends remediation, and supports application deployments and environment configuration. The role also performs capacity, endurance, and performance tuning across platforms; evaluates JVM, database, and infrastructure metrics; collaborates with technical and business teams; and provides team leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2391768
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops performance test scripting for Pega Based applications
- Assists in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to BAs, SSAs, LSAs, Pega Client Support
- Identifies and proposes PRPC enhancements from trends in requirements
- Demonstrates an understanding of both the business process(es) and the technical application of the Framework(s) worked on
- Identifies Performance Test Framework enhancements or modifications made at client sites in order to meet project functional requirements or to meet ongoing compliance need
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements.
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience working on software development projects
- Hands on experience in Performance Tools like HP Load Runner, JMeter, Blaze Meter CYARA etc.
- Experience working with enterprise level profiling and monitoring tools e.g., Dynatrace, HP Diagnostics, Splunk, App Dynamics, Grafana, SiteScope, Zabbix
- Experience in performance, capacity, and endurance testing, as well as results analysis and recommended remediation is required - JMeter experience is a must
- Worked on deploying the application builds, importing/exporting database schemas, configuring data sources in the app server, configuring the application in the Performance environments etc.
- Team leadership and team management experience
- Experience prototyping and performance tuning applications deployed across multiple operating systems, languages and computing platforms
- Good understanding of JVM tuning, GC logs, Memory leaks, JConsole, JVisualVM, and AWR, ADDM report analysis and NMON reports
- Good knowledge on installing WebLogic Server and Oracle database servers on the OCI
- Familiarity with agile methodologies (i.e. SCRUM)
- Familiarity with hosting Pega applications on OpenShift platforms
- Proven ability to organize and facilitate discussions with 5+ people (all levels)
- Proven solid oral and written communications
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in performance testing script development using various protocols like Web- HTTP/HTML, Web Services, SAP Web Writing performance scripts for Pega based application
- Knowledge on POSTGRESQL
- Knowledge on K8 will be an added advantage
- Healthcare domain knowledge
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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience working on software development projects
- Hands-on experience with performance tools including HP LoadRunner, JMeter, BlazeMeter, and CYARA
- Experience with enterprise profiling and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, HP Diagnostics, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, SiteScope, and Zabbix
- Experience in performance, capacity, and endurance testing, results analysis, and remediation recommendations; JMeter experience is required
- Experience deploying application builds, importing and exporting database schemas, configuring application-server data sources, and configuring performance environments
- Team leadership and team management experience
- Experience prototyping and performance-tuning applications across multiple operating systems, languages, and computing platforms
- Understanding of JVM tuning, garbage-collection logs, memory leaks, JConsole, JVisualVM, AWR, ADDM report analysis, and NMON reports
- Knowledge of installing WebLogic Server and Oracle database servers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including Scrum
- Familiarity with hosting Pega applications on OpenShift platforms
- Ability to organize and facilitate discussions with groups of five or more participants at all levels
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Expertise developing performance-testing scripts using Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, and SAP Web protocols for Pega applications
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
- Healthcare domain knowledge
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often regarded as generous, with meaningful accrual and flexibility to use it. While practices can vary by team, the overall time-off offering stands out as a relative strength.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer matching is available and generally well-regarded for supporting long-term savings. It remains valuable, though candidates should verify the current match formula.
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Parental & Family Support — Programs such as parental leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are included as notable elements of the total rewards package. These resources can meaningfully support work-life balance when applicable to the role and location.
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Optum Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
Typical time on-site:
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