Senior QA Lead - Manual Testing for Scientific Apps

Cognizant; Buenos Aires; Presencial; ARS 3.348.000 - 6.026.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant is seeking a QA Manual Test Lead / Principal QA Engineer to lead quality assurance initiatives for digital applications supporting pharmaceutical early discovery research.

You will define testing strategy, govern quality, and ensure thorough validation of scientific applications before release, working with scientists, product owners, data teams, and engineers across end-to-end workflows.

Formación

• Advanced English Proficiency required.
• 10+ years of software quality assurance and testing experience.
• Significant experience leading manual testing and functional QA initiatives.
• Proven success delivering QA for complex enterprise platforms.
• Experience leading end-to-end testing across integrated systems.
• Ability to partner with senior business, scientific, product, engineering, architecture, and data stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own manual testing strategies, methodologies, test plans, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
• Establish risk-based testing for scientific/research applications.
• Lead requirement reviews and convert requirements into test scenarios and cases.
• Own testing estimates, schedules, resource planning, and quality reporting.
• Drive quality governance across the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor QA professionals and testing teams.
• Build reusable testing assets and regression suites.

Conocimientos

Manual Testing

Functional QA

Risk-based testing

Stakeholder management

Jira

Azure DevOps

HP ALM

SQL

REST API validation

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / IT / Life Sciences / Pharmacy / Chemistry / Biology / Bioinformatics

Herramientas

Jira

Azure DevOps

HP ALM

Zephyr

Xray

qTest

Descripción del empleo

Cognizant is seeking a QA Manual Test Lead / Principal QA Engineer to lead quality assurance initiatives for digital applications supporting pharmaceutical early discovery research.

You will define testing strategy, govern quality, and ensure thorough validation of scientific applications before release, working with scientists, product owners, data teams, and engineers across end-to-end workflows.