Lead QA Engineer - AI-Driven Test Automation (Telecom)

Cognizant; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer with 12-15 years of experience to drive advanced quality practices in an office-based, day-shift role with no travel. Focus on test automation and intelligent validation using AI code assist tools, context engineering, and Java Selenium RestAssured Cucumber and TestNG to ensure resilient, enterprise-grade software and reliable customer experiences.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining robust automation frameworks, overseeing end-to-end

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in designing Java automation frameworks that integrate Selenium RestAssured Cucumber and TestNG for web API and end-to-end scenarios.
• Hands-on experience using AI code assist tools to generate, refactor, and validate test code while maintaining quality.
• Context engineering principles to translate business processes into focused test conditions to maximize defect detection.
• Selenium UI testing with robust locators, modular page structures and data management to stay stable with UI changes.
• API validation with RestAssured covering status checks, payload verification and error handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust test automation frameworks in Java with Selenium, RestAssured, Cucumber and TestNG.
• Drive end-to-end functional, integration, and regression testing cycles and provide visibility into quality and readiness for releases.
• Guide and govern AI code assist tool usage to accelerate script development and reduce human errors.
• Apply context engineering to analyze business flows and data dependencies for intelligent test suites.
• Develop API test solutions with RestAssured, including reusable components and data-driven tests.
• Create clear, reusable Cucumber scenarios aligned with business language for stakeholders.
• Optimize TestNG configurations, parallel runs, and reporting for large test sets.
• Review requirements and design artifacts with cross-functional teams to ensure acceptance criteria and coverage.
• Provide defect analysis and root-cause discussions to drive corrective actions.

Skills

Java

Selenium

RestAssured

Cucumber

TestNG

AI code assist tools

Context engineering

Telecom domain knowledge

Tools

AI code assist tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer with 12-15 years of experience to drive advanced quality practices in an office-based, day-shift role with no travel. Focus on test automation and intelligent validation using AI code assist tools, context engineering, and Java Selenium RestAssured Cucumber and TestNG to ensure resilient, enterprise-grade software and reliable customer experiences.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining robust automation frameworks, overseeing end-to-end