Testing Analyst Lead - Automation-Hyderabad & Chennai

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Hyderabad, Chennai; Hybrid; INR 1,300,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is hiring a Testing Analyst Lead - Automation for a hybrid role in Hyderabad. The candidate will architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks, develop UI automation using Playwright, and build robust API regression suites.

You will integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and contribute to quality metrics and test stability across projects. The role requires strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Java/Python/JS, and CI/CD tools, along with

Qualifications

• Experience in Automation Engineering with 10+ years in testing and QA
• UI automation using Playwright/Javascript/TypeScript or Python
• API automation using REST Assured or equivalent tooling
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices and toolchains (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and backend checks
• Understanding of test frameworks and design patterns (POM, BDD)
• Automation architecture and framework design
• Knowledge of cross-browser automation and flaky test reduction

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks
• Build and maintain UI automation with Playwright across browsers
• Create robust API regression suites and validate contracts
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates
• Report testing metrics and drive test stability and coverage

Skills

Automation Eng

Playwright

Java/Python/JS

Cucumber BDD

REST API Testing

CI/CD

Git

SQL

Tools

Playwright

REST Assured

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Job description

Role: Testing Analyst Lead - Automation

Experience: 10 14 years

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days in office/week)

Key Responsibilities

Automation Framework Architecture

• Design and maintain scalable, reusable, modular, and maintainable automation frameworks.
• Establish framework architecture, reusable libraries, coding patterns, configuration management, test-data strategies, reporting, logging, and exception-handling standards.
• Perform framework-level enhancements and evaluate new automation technologies.
• Conduct technical reviews of automation code and enforce development best practices.
• Reduce duplication and improve reusability through standardized automation components.

2. UI Automation

• Develop and maintain sophisticated UI automation solutions using Playwright.
• Build automation using JavaScript/TypeScript / Java, or Python, depending on application and framework requirements.
• Implement appropriate design patterns such as Page Object Model, reusable components, fixtures, and utilities.
• Design reliable approaches for dynamic UI components, asynchronous behavior, authentication, browser contexts, and test data dependencies.
• Analyze and reduce flaky automated tests to maintain a stable regression suite.
• Support cross-browser and end-to-end business-flow validation.

3. API & Integration Testing

• Build comprehensive automated API regression suites using REST Assured or comparable technologies.
• Automate validation of RESTful services, request/response payloads, status codes, headers, authentication, business rules, and integration of workflows.
• Validate JSON/XML payloads and API contracts.
• Develop reusable utilities for API authentication, test-data creation, response parsing, and validation.
• Support end-to-end testing involving APIs, backend services, databases, and UI applications.

4. CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or equivalent enterprise tooling.
• Establish automated execution for smoke, regression, API, and end-to-end suites at appropriate pipeline stages.
• Configure execution results and reporting so teams can quickly identify genuine application failures versus automation/framework failures.
• Work with DevOps and engineering teams to establish meaningful quality gates for application deployments.

5. Reporting & Quality Metrics

Develop and communicate automation metrics such as:

• Automation coverage
• Regression automation coverage
• Pass/fail trends
• Automation execution stability
• Flaky-test trends
• Execution duration
• Defect detection
• Framework stability
• Automation backlog/progress

Technical Skill Set

Must Have

Technology / Skill

10 – 14 years

Automation Engineering

8+ years

Java / Python / JavaScript / TypeScript

8+ years hands-on

Playwright

3+ years

Cucumber BDD

8+ years

REST Assured / API Automation

Strong hands-on experience

UI & End-to-End Automation

Advanced

REST API Testing

Advanced

Automation Framework Design

Advanced

CI/CD Integration

Strong experience

Git / Source Control

Strong experience

SQL / Database Validation

Strong working knowledge

Good-to-Have Skills

• Selenium WebDriver
• Postman
• Robot Framework with Python
• JUnit / TestNG
• Maven / Gradle
• JSON / XML
• Docker
• Jenkins
• AWS
• GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
• Cloud-based testing environments
• SQL and backend/database validation
• Experience with AI-assisted development/testing technologies such as GitHub Copilot

Test Automation Engineer - Cards & Payments

Job Title / Role

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• UI automation with Playwright preferred.
• API automation using REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Karate, or similar.
• Mobile automation using Appium or similar.
• BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or Behave; Page Object Model and structured design patterns.
• Strong SQL for back-end and data validation.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Docker, Kubernetes, and Git-based workflows for test environments.
• Reporting and observability using Allure, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar.
• Understanding of shift-left testing, the test pyramid, and production-like environments.

Secondary Skills

• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• UI automation with Playwright preferred.
• API automation using REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Karate, or similar.
• Mobile automation using Appium or similar.
• BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or Behave; Page Object Model and structured design patterns.
• Strong SQL for back-end and data validation.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Docker, Kubernetes, and Git-based workflows for test environments.
• Reporting and observability using Allure, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar.
• Understanding of shift-left testing, the test pyramid, and production-like environments.

Quality Assurance Analyst
Quality Assurance Analyst - Advanced
Quality Assurance Analyst - Senior/Team Lead
Software Test Analyst
Software Test Analyst - Advanced
Software Test Analyst - Senior/Team Lead

Cards & Payments Domain Cards

Cards & Payments Domain Cards
End-to-end payment lifecycle: origination, authentication, authorization, processing and capture.
Clearing, settlement and reconciliation across merchants, acquirers, card networks and issuers.
Payment methods: credit/debit cards, ACH, wire, digital wallets and real-time payments.
Card network and message flows across Visa, Mastercard and ISO 8583-based processing.
Billing, invoicing, collections, payment posting, accounting and financial reporting.
Exception handling for declines, refunds, reversals, disputes, chargebacks and write-offs.
Loyalty capabilities including points accrual, redemption, rewards and payment-linked offers.

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and back-end payment services.
• Automate card lifecycle and payment flows: issuance, activation, PIN, authorization, capture, refunds, reversals, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Validate messages and integrations across Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, and local schemes using simulators and certification tools.
• Automate REST and event-driven microservices testing, including Kafka and MQ.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD with quality gates, parallel execution, and fast feedback.
• Create and manage synthetic and masked card test data.
• Use AI-assisted tools for test design, generation, maintenance, and failure analysis; review outputs for accuracy.
• Perform defect and root-cause analysis; report quality metrics to stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to test strategy, standards, and best practices.