About the role
As a QA Automation Lead with Media Residuals domain experience, you will make an impact by driving quality assurance strategies, automation adoption, and testing excellence across applications supporting the Media Residuals domain. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and work collaboratively with product owners, business stakeholders, development teams, and global delivery teams to ensure high-quality releases and operational excellence.
In this role, you will:
- Lead QA activities across Media Residuals applications, ensuring alignment with business and project objectives.
- Drive test automation adoption and identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency, quality, and coverage.
- Manage test planning, effort estimation, execution tracking, defect management, and release sign-off activities.
- Review and validate test artifacts including test scenarios, test cases, automation scripts, and test reports.
- Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams while communicating testing progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and champion QA best practices across the delivery lifecycle.
Work model
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations
What you need to have to be considered
- Proven experience working within the Media Residuals domain, including Media Residuals-related platforms and applications.
- Strong experience in test management, test planning, execution management, and defect tracking.
- Hands-on expertise in test automation using Java and Selenium.
- Experience performing both functional testing and automation testing in enterprise environments.
- Experience working within an Agile delivery environment.
- Proven ability to lead and coordinate activities across onsite/offshore delivery models.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and reporting skills.
These will help you stand out
- Experience leading QA transformation and automation initiatives.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern testing practices.
- Experience with test reporting and quality metrics management.
- Ability to identify process improvements and drive testing efficiencies.
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities within distributed QA teams.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $71,100 to 112,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
Acerca de Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) es un creador de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que conecta la inversión en IA con el valor empresarial mediante el desarrollo de soluciones de IA full‑stack para sus clientes. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, junto con su experiencia en procesos e ingeniería, permite incorporar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan resultados tangibles y mantienen a las empresas a la vanguardia en un entorno en constante cambio. Más información en cognizant.ai o @cognizant.
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