Automation Engineer Associate Advisor

About Evernorth:
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people.
Automation Engineer Associate Advisor
Position Overview:
The role of the Automation Engineer Associate Advisor will provide critical support in system development across broader Pharmacy Quality Engineering organization, influencing Operations and Technology Product Management. This role will provide expertise in the engineering, design, installation and start-up of automated systems. As a member of our team, you will work in a high performance, high frequency, enterprise technology environment. This role works closely with client, IT management and staff to identify automated solutions, new or modified systems, reuse of existing machinery/equipment, or integration of purchased solutions or a combination of the available alternatives. The Automation Engineer Associate Advisor supports the organization in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives and uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders. 
Responsibilities:
Designs, develops, and unit tests applications in accordance with established standards
Supports process improvements across broader Pharmacy Quality Engineering organization, influencing Operations and Technology Product Management. 
Focus on techniques for defect prevention, as opposed to identifying defects.
May influence Operations and Technology Product Management with a user story maturity 'completeness' model. 
Enhance personnel scale with heat matrices, to drive Quality and Development Engineering personnel with the highest priority interfaces, and also where not to focus their time.   
Consulting with both inter-organizational and outside client contact to ensure the use of best practices and industry standards.
Assists the team in estimating and re-estimating testing effort on projects while recognizing and communicating dependencies in cross functional testing as well as data to complete estimates.
May take on mentoring  and training new & existing team members
Complete the feedback process using empirical data to influence user story definitions, acceptance criteria and engineering designs. 
Qualifications
Required Skills:
Proven knowledge of Automation Using Selenium, Cucumber, java, Robot framework(Python)
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
Solid understanding of relational database design and querying concepts
Detail-oriented and goal-oriented
Proficient in Microsoft Office
Able to adapt to a fast-paced work environment
Able to work independently and as part of a team
Familiarity with version control concepts
Ideally, exposure to Pega & Cloud technologies
Required Experience & Education: 
College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Minimum 8-11 years of work experience in software automation testing and quality engineering
Preferred Experience / Qualifications:
Healthcare domain knowledge
Mobile Automation experience
Knowledge in JavaScript and TypeScript programming languages
Exposure to AWS services (DynamoDB, S3 Buckets, Lambdas, etc.)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
Solid analytical skills, highly organized, self-motivated and a quick learner 
Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities as necessary
Location & Hours of Work:
Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate.
Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India
Equal Opportunity Statement 
Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.