End-to-End QA Lead — Test Strategy & Automation

Cognizant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a QA Lead within its Quality Engineering & Assurance practice in the Greater London area. The role focuses on leading end-to-end testing, test planning, estimation, design, execution and defect management across client projects.

You will collaborate with clients, business analysts, developers and project managers to ensure quality deliverables, drive automation initiatives and maintain testing standards. Mentoring and coaching of team members is also expected.

Qualifications

• Must lead end-to-end testing efforts across multiple projects.
• Strong ability to analyze requirements and define traceable test plans.
• Experience in designing test strategies and risk-based testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing activities including requirement analysis, test planning, estimation, test design, execution, and defect management.
• Collaborate with clients, business analysts, developers, and project managers to ensure quality deliverables and successful project execution.
• Manage knowledge transition, resource planning, test environments, test data, and release coordination.
• Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, quality compliance, audits, and metrics reporting.
• Support UAT, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and retrospectives for continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members, conduct performance coaching, identify training needs, and support overall team development.

Skills

Test planning

Requirement analysis

Test design

Defect management

Mentoring

Performance coaching

Tools

Selenium

UFT

Java

Cucumber/SpecFlow

BDD frameworks

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a QA Lead within its Quality Engineering & Assurance practice in the Greater London area. The role focuses on leading end-to-end testing, test planning, estimation, design, execution and defect management across client projects.

You will collaborate with clients, business analysts, developers and project managers to ensure quality deliverables, drive automation initiatives and maintain testing standards. Mentoring and coaching of team members is also expected.