Senior SDET Quality Engineer

Cognizant; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Senior SDET Quality Engineer with a robust background in automation within the banking sector. In this dynamic role, you'll be responsible for defining test strategies, creating comprehensive test plans, and implementing cutting-edge automation solutions. You'll collaborate closely with development and DevOps teams to enhance test efficiency and coverage, ensuring compliance with banking regulations. This innovative firm values flexibility, offering a hybrid working model that promotes a healthy work-life balance while providing opportunities to work on impactful projects. Join a team that is committed to quality and excellence in the finance industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Quality Engineering with a focus on test automation.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and cloud testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation strategies for test efficiency.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation frameworks for API, UI, and backend testing.

Skills

Test Automation

Java

Python

JavaScript

Selenium

Appium

Robot Framework

API Testing

CI/CD

Unix

Tools

Postman

RestAssured

TestNG

JUnit

Cucumber

JIRA

qTest

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

We are seeking a Senior SDET Quality Engineer with a strong automation background in banking/finance to drive test efficiency. The ideal candidate will be defining test strategies, creating test plans, executing test cases, and implementing automation solutions for our banking clients.

About Cognizant’s QEA Practice:

We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients including 50+ clients in the Fortune 100. We bring industry-leading vision and expertise to help with the Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant!

In this role, you will:

· Design, implement and own automation strategies to enhance test efficiency and coverage across target applications.

· Lead by example as an automation engineer, ensuring best practices in scripting, execution, and maintenance.

· Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, driving continuous testing.

· Develop automation frameworks for API, UI, and backend testing to ensure robust, scalable, and reusable test suites.

· Ensure compliance with banking/HR regulations test automation approaches.

· Perform test data management, identifying, creating, and securing test data for automation needs.

· Drive shift-left testing, integrating automation early in the development lifecycle to identify defects early.

· Analyze automation reports and metrics, identifying trends and areas for optimization.

· Evaluate new automation tools and technologies to enhance the bank’s QE capabilities.

· Accountable for developing deep domain knowledge and business logic, processes, flows, data flows and rules, for areas in scope and training junior resources. (Workday/ SAP/ Payroll functions).

What you’ll need to succeed (required skills):

· Minimum 8+ years in QE with a strong focus on test automation in banking or financial services.

· Proficiency in automation tools like Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework, Playwright.

· Hands-on experience in developing and implementing efficient test case design and test architecture techniques, automation framework(s) & automation strategies.

· Must have strong programming skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript.

· Hands-on experience with API testing (Postman, RestAssured) is an asset.

· Experience in test automation frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, BDD/TDD.

· Hands-on experience working in Unix environments.

· CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Bamboo.

· Cloud testing experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.

· Knowledge of test management tools like JIRA, qTest.

What will help you stand out (preferred skills):

• Knowledge of cloud, distributed and mainframe.

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working Arrangements:

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 Cognizant or client office in Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.

Note: 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.