Junior Functional & Database QA Engineer - Automation

Cognizant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Greater London is seeking a Functional/Database Tester to join our delivery team. You will attend daily scrum calls, understand requirements, plan and execute testing activities for upcoming work, and collaborate with project and stakeholder teams to ensure timely product delivery.

Responsibilities include test strategy, functional and database testing, test case creation, execution, sign-off, defect management, and regular status reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in functional and database testing with test case design.
• Familiarity with automation basics using Selenium or Playwright.
• Good communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and contribute to Test Strategy and Test planning.
• Perform functional and database testing, including test case preparation, execution, and sign-off for new features and change requests.
• Document maintenance in client provided tool (e.g. JIRA) – saving Test plans, Test cases, Bug reports.
• Test management and Defect management.
• Producing daily/weekly/management status reports.
• Test summary preparation.
• Develop and execute automation scripts using Selenium and maintain regression packs.
• Support SIT team.
• Support Go Live.
• Strong understanding of test management practices.
• Good knowledge of functional and database testing concepts.
• Good BFS domain knowledge.
• Basic understanding of automation tools (Playwright/Selenium, Java/C#).
• Nice to have: MS Dynamics exposure.

Skills

Communication

Functional testing

Database testing

Automation basics

Java/C#

MS Dynamics exposure

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

JIRA

Job description

Cognizant in Greater London is seeking a Functional/Database Tester to join our delivery team. You will attend daily scrum calls, understand requirements, plan and execute testing activities for upcoming work, and collaborate with project and stakeholder teams to ensure timely product delivery.

Responsibilities include test strategy, functional and database testing, test case creation, execution, sign-off, defect management, and regular status reporting.