Job Summary
Serve as a lead quality engineer focused on designing and executing robust automation strategies across cloud native microservices using modern tools and practices. Collaborate with cross functional teams in a hybrid work model to improve product reliability performance and security while enabling faster and safer software delivery that benefits customers in technology driven markets.
Responsibilities
Own quality outcomes for one or more product domains end-to-end from requirements through production monitoring.
Drive a shift-left quality culture by embedding testing strategy and risk analysis early in the design and decomposition process.
Lead the design development and maintenance of automated test frameworks across UI API and data layers.
Leverage agentic AI-First tooling to accelerate test generation coverage analysis defect triage and root cause investigation.
Define and enforce testing standards patterns and best practices across the QA team.
Conduct test design reviews and provide constructive feedback to QA engineers.
Mentor junior QA engineers reinforcing best practices and supporting their professional growth.
Collaborate closely with developers product owners and stakeholders to deeply understand business intent and translate it into comprehensive test strategies.
Analyze system behavior holistically. Identify edge cases integration risks and failure modes that others miss.
Contribute to observability and monitoring strategies ensuring production quality signals are in place (DataDog RUM APM).
Ensure all quality activities are properly estimated and delivered to agreed timeframes and quality standards.
Champion continuous improvement of the teams quality processes tooling and delivery pipeline.
Leverage innovation time to explore new testing approaches tools and automation strategies.
Deep intellectual curiosity. Naturally drawn to understanding how things work and why they break.
- Ability to think in systems: anticipate downstream impacts integration failures and user-facing risks before they materialize.
Strong understanding of CS fundamentals and how to apply them to test design and automation architecture.
Ability to translate business requirements and regulatory constraints into comprehensive test coverage strategies.
Champions quality as a team sport. Influences developers and product owners to share accountability for quality outcomes.
Drives innovation and continuous improvement in testing tooling processes and coverage.
Energetic self-starter who thrives in a team-oriented environment and can clearly articulate daily progress coverage gaps and blocking issues.
Demonstrated history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated history of good decision-making conflict resolution and follow-through.
Proficiency in testing REST APIs including tooling such as Swagger and Postman.
Experience testing applications built on .NET (C# VB.NET) and Angular front-end frameworks.
Experience validating both SQL and NoSQL data persistence layers (MSSQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB).
Working knowledge of DataDog for observability APM and RUM from a quality and monitoring perspective.
Experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud-native application testing.
Comfort with iterative spec-light delivery. You will not receive a full spec upfront and will need to think things through fill in the blanks and adapt your testing strategy across sprints as the product evolves.
A firm understanding of application security testing from both the web service and web application perspective.
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with a relentless drive to find root cause.
Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to clearly articulate quality risk and status to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
SaaS-based software quality engineering experience on large to enterprise-class applications
Technologies
C#.NET VB.NET JavaScript ASP.NET Angular SOAP REST AWS Cloud MSSQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB Kibana PowerBI Playwright Selenium Postman DataDog
Certifications Required
ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or comparable cloud or QA automation certification
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
Compensation 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.
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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
