Project Manager III - Operational Testing

Business Area: Project Management

Job Type: Full time

Key Details: This Project Manager III will coordinate operational testing activities across cross-functional teams, stakeholders, managing multiple large projects while maintaining key project artifacts, testing requirements, risks, issues, and status updates. The ideal candidate has strong communication and strategic-thinking skills, and has experience with testing, quality assurance, Agile, or UAT.

Position Purpose: Plan, organize, monitor, and oversee complex projects utilizing cross functional teams to deliver defined requirements and meet company strategic objectives.

• Manage the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment and closure

• Utilize corporate and industry standard project management tools and techniques to effectively manage projects.

• Assist with establishment and maintenance of corporate project management methodology and other department procedures

• Maintain detailed project documentation including meeting minutes, action items, issues lists and risk management plans

• Provide leadership and effectively communicate project status to all stakeholders, may include written executive summaries

• Negotiate with project stakeholders to identify resources, resolve issues, and mitigate risks

• Coordinate cross-functional meetings with various functional areas to meet overall stakeholder expectations and company's objectives

• Provide functional and technical knowledge across multiple business and technical areas

• Monitor the creation of all project deliverables to ensure adherence to quality standards including design documents, test plans, training materials, and operations documentation

• Demonstrated experience leading projects that include UAT, operational testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, or production-readiness validation.

• Understands the testing lifecycle, including test planning, scenario development, execution, defect management, retesting, and sign-off/attestation.

• Experience identifying and escalating testing risks, defects, environment/data dependencies, development delays, and schedule impacts before they affect go-live.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, related field, or equivalent experience. Master's degree preferred. 4+ years of project management and implementation or program management experience. Proficient with MS Office applications and project management tools. Experience working with and leading diverse groups and matrix managed environments.

License/Certification: PMP, PgMP, or CAPM preferred.Pay Range: $87,700.00 - $157,800.00 per year

At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act