Hybrid Test Lead: Data Migration & Cloud Conversion

Cognizant; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Test Lead for Data Migration & Conversion Testing to guide QA for large-scale migrations and cloud transformation in the payments domain. You will oversee data validation, API testing, and test automation, ensuring data integrity across complex enterprise platforms.

The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, risk mitigation, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams in an Agile setup.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data migration, conversion, and cloud migration testing.
• Experience validating customer, account, card and transaction data.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 8583 messaging and payment processing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing for data migration and cloud migration programs.
• Perform source-to-target validation and data reconciliation.
• Validate data synchronization and Data Lake processing across platforms.
• Conduct API, integration, and web app testing using REST/SOAP.
• Validate payment transaction flows and ISO 8583 formats.
• Perform packet/protocol testing for secure data transmission.
• Maintain automated test suites and analyze results.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and offshore resources in Agile environments.

Skills

Data migration

Data validation

Data reconciliation

Source-to-target validation

Cloud migration testing

API testing

Test automation

End-to-end testing

Agile testing

Troubleshooting

Defect management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Thunder Client

Soap Sonar

WSDL Weaver

Jira

Splunk/Argo log analysis

Git

Jenkins

Kafka

Selenium

Playwright

REST Assured

Robot Framework

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Test Lead for Data Migration & Conversion Testing to guide QA for large-scale migrations and cloud transformation in the payments domain. You will oversee data validation, API testing, and test automation, ensuring data integrity across complex enterprise platforms.

The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, risk mitigation, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams in an Agile setup.