Senior QA Testing Automation Engineer - Hybrid

Senior QA Testing Automation Engineer - Hybrid

Important Disclaimers:

**Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.**

In this role, you will:

• Perform hands-on functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Design Test Strategy, Test Plan, estimate and track testing efforts, develop, review, and execute detailed test scenarios and test cases based on functional requirements and banking business workflows.
• Actively participate in and coordinate defect triage, collaborating with developers, business analysts, and Testing teams to investigate, prioritize, and resolve defects.
• Perform defect retesting, regression validation, and root cause investigation to ensure quality fixes.
• Support test data preparation, test environment validation, and troubleshooting of testing dependencies.
• Coordinate day-to-day testing activities across offshore team members, ensuring execution of progress and timely completion of assigned deliverables.
• Work closely with the FIS Test Lead to communicate testing progress, defects, blockers, and quality risks.
• Provide test execution status, defect metrics, and regression results to support release readiness assessments.
• Prepare Test Closure/summary report, create daily and weekly status report

Locations: Alpharetta, GA
Work model: Hybrid

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Alpharetta, GA. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

What you need to have to be considered (Required):

• 6+ years of hands-on software QA experience, including experience coordinating testing activities within a QA team.
• Strong knowledge of card processing, payments, and customer servicing systems, including TS2, card lifecycle management, account servicing, card issuance and replacements, authorization processing, settlement, transaction research, fraud blocks, back-office operations, and customer service workflows.
• Experience testing fraud, transaction defense, dispute, and chargeback solutions, including fraud monitoring, fraud case management, rule validation, transaction reviews, chargeback processing, representments, merchant interactions, and network compliance validation.
• Strong proficiency in backend data validation and integration testing, including SQL-based data verification, API testing using Postman, and validation of data synchronization across customer service applications, payment platforms, fraud systems, and downstream services.
• Experience with data migration, conversion, and cloud migration testing, including source-to-target validation, data reconciliation, customer/account/card/transaction data verification, end-to-end business process validation, and familiarity with AWS environments supporting on-premises-to-cloud migration initiatives.
• Strong understanding of ISO 8583 message formats and payment interchange protocols.
• Demonstrate good understanding of the ISO 8583 standard to validate financial transaction card-originated messages, including MTIs, bitmaps, and data elements
  Packet & Protocol Testing: Understanding deep Packet Testing using Soap Sonar/ WSDL Weaver to ensure data integrity during transmission. You will verify that "packed" and "unpacked" data fields are correctly serialized and deserialized across secure network channels.
• Experience of Data synchronization and source-to-target validation, Data Lake/data-processing validation
• Strong hands-on experience in REST/SOAP API testing using Postman, SoapUI, Thunder Client, or similar tools.
• Experience in web UI testing, including functional validation and integration testing.
• Ability to understand automation scripts, analyze execution results, and troubleshoot failures.
• Strong experience in defect identification, defect triage, defect lifecycle management, and retesting.
• Experience with Jira or similar defects and test management tools.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently on complex testing scenarios while supporting offshore team coordination.

Automation.

• Experience in executing existing automation test suites using BDD/Cucumber, Selenium, REST Assured, Robot framework, or similar frameworks.
• Experience developing, modifying, or maintaining automation scripts using BDD/Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured, or Robot framework.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.
• Knowledge of Kafka or other event-driven messaging platforms.
• Basic understanding of microservices architecture, API integrations, and cloud-hosted applications.
• Experience using application monitoring and log analysis tools such as Splunk and Argo

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 11/20/2026.

The annual salary for this position is from $53k to $92.500K 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.

Sobre a Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) é uma construtora de IA e fornecedora de serviços de tecnologia, criando a ponte entre o investimento em IA e o valor para as empresas por meio do desenvolvimento de soluções de IA completas para nossos clientes. Nossa profunda experiência em setores, processos e engenharia nos permite incorporar o contexto único de cada organização em sistemas tecnológicos que potencializam a capacidade humana, geram resultados tangíveis e mantêm empresas globais à frente em um mundo em rápida transformação. Saiba mais em cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.

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