Automation Tester - fraud transaction - Hybrid

Cognizant; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

PTO

401(k)

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Alpharetta, GA seeks a QA/testing professional to perform end-to-end testing of banking workflows. You will design test strategies, execute test plans, and coordinate defect triage with offshore teams. The role emphasizes REST/SOAP API testing and web UI validation within a hybrid work setup.

You'll verify data integrity, support test data preparation, and deliver regular status reports. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential for release readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience testing fraud, transaction defense, dispute and chargeback solutions.
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Responsibilities

• In This Role you will perform hands-on functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Design test strategy, test plan, estimate and track testing efforts, develop detailed test scenarios and cases.
• Coordinate defect triage with developers, analysts and testing teams.
• Perform defect retesting and root-cause analysis to ensure fixes.
• Support test data preparation and environment validation.
• Coordinate testing across offshore teams and report progress.
• Communicate testing progress, defects and risks to leads.
• Prepare test closure/summary and status reports.

Skills

Fraud testing

ISO 8583

REST API testing

UI testing

Jira

Agile

SDLC

Postman

Selenium

CI/CD

Kafka

Splunk

Tools

Playwright

Swagger

REST Assured

Robot Framework

Jenkins

Git

Argo

Job description

Important Disclaimers

Please note: A few of our roles may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations, depending on project or client needs.

In This Role, You Will

• Perform hands-on functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Design Test Strategy, Test Plan, estimate and track testing efforts, develop, review, and execute detailed test scenarios and test cases based on functional requirements and banking business workflows.
• Actively participate in and coordinate defect triage, collaborating with developers, business analysts, and Testing teams to investigate, prioritize, and resolve defects.
• Perform defect retesting, regression validation, and root cause investigation to ensure quality fixes.
• Support test data preparation, test environment validation, and troubleshooting of testing dependencies.
• Coordinate day-to-day testing activities across offshore team members, ensuring execution of progress and timely completion of assigned deliverables.
• Work closely with our Test Leads to communicate testing progress, defects, blockers, and quality risks.
• Provide test execution status, defect metrics, and regression results to support release readiness assessments.
• Prepare Test Closure/summary report, create daily and weekly status report

Locations: Alpharetta, GA

Work model: Hybrid

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Alpharetta, GA. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

What You Need To Have To Be Considered (Required)

• Experience testing fraud, transaction defense, dispute, and chargeback solutions, including fraud monitoring, fraud case management, rule validation, transaction reviews, chargeback processing, representments, merchant interactions, and network compliance validation.
• Strong understanding of ISO 8583 message formats and payment interchange protocols.
• Demonstrate good understanding of the ISO 8583 standard to validate financial transaction card-originated messages, including MTIs, bitmaps, and data elements
• Packet & Protocol Testing: Understanding deep Packet Testing using Soap Sonar/ WSDL Weaver to ensure data integrity during transmission.
• You will verify that "packed" and "unpacked" data fields are correctly serialized and deserialized across secure network channels.
• Experience of Data synchronization and source-to-target validation, Data Lake/data-processing validation
• Strong hands-on experience in REST/SOAP API testing using Postman, SoapUI, Thunder Client, or similar tools.
• Experience in web UI testing, including functional validation and integration testing.
• Ability to understand automation scripts, analyze execution results, and troubleshoot failures.
• Strong experience in defect identification, defect triage, defect lifecycle management, and retesting.
• Experience with Jira or similar defects and test management tools.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently on complex testing scenarios while supporting offshore team coordination.

Automation

• Experience in executing existing automation test suites using BDD/Cucumber, Selenium, REST Assured, Robot framework, or similar frameworks.
• Experience developing, modifying, or maintaining automation scripts using BDD/Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured, or Robot framework.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.
• Knowledge of Kafka or other event-driven messaging platforms.
• Basic understanding of microservices architecture, API integrations, and cloud-hosted applications.
• Experience using application monitoring and log analysis tools such as Splunk and Argo

Salary And Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is from $53k to $92.500K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.