Senior QA Engineer - End-to-End Testing & Automation

Cognizant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Test Specialist to lead quality engineering, test automation, and enterprise application testing across diverse projects.

You will define end-to-end test strategies, design scalable automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, UFT, and Cucumber/SpecFlow, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases with rigorous data validation.

Qualifications

• Senior Product Test Specialist with strong experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Enterprise Application Testing.
• Define and execute end-to-end test strategies across functional, regression, integration, API, BI, and system testing.
• Designs and maintains automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, UFT, Cucumber/SpecFlow, and CI/CD tools.
• Performs backend data validation, defect management, and enterprise application testing to ensure quality releases.
• Collaborates with Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to validate requirements.
• Mentors testing teams and supports Agile delivery of scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute comprehensive test strategies across multiple testing types.
• Design and maintain manual and automated test cases using Selenium, UFT, Java, Cucumber/SpecFlow, and BDD.
• Develop and enhance scalable automation frameworks and API test suites for CI/CD.
• Perform backend data validation using SQL, Oracle, and BI reporting for data integrity.
• Manage defect lifecycle with Jira, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla, and Zephyr for quality governance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Execute Workday and enterprise application testing to ensure reliable functionality.
• Implement and monitor CI/CD-enabled test execution pipelines with Jenkins.
• Prepare test reports, quality metrics, risk assessments, and release recommendations.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Test Automation

Enterprise Application Testing

Java

Selenium

UFT

Cucumber/SpecFlow

CI/CD

Data validation

Agile

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Bugzilla

Zephyr

Jenkins

SQL

Oracle PL/SQL

MySQL

Job description

Cognizant in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Test Specialist to lead quality engineering, test automation, and enterprise application testing across diverse projects.

You will define end-to-end test strategies, design scalable automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, UFT, and Cucumber/SpecFlow, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases with rigorous data validation.