Remote Healthcare Quality Engineering Lead

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 81,000 - 142,000; 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 Healthcare Quality Engineer to lead QA initiatives across complex healthcare applications. You will drive testing, build automation frameworks, and integrate testing into CI/CD with teams across business, development, and stakeholders.

This role emphasizes maintainable test suites, API and backend validation, and extensive hands-on automation using modern tools in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including manual testing, automation testing, test planning, defect management, and Agile delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience in test automation framework development using Java, TypeScript, Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Protractor, Cucumber, TestNG, and JUnit.
• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, API, database, mobile, and cross-browser testing.
• Strong experience with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL for data validation, data integrity testing, and backend analysis.
• Proficiency with API and performance testing tools such as Postman, SOAP UI, JMeter, and NeoLoad.
• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Git, Maven, and GitHub Copilot.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and defect management processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Strong healthcare domain experience, particularly in prior authorization, utilization management, provider portals, clinical workflows, and continuity of care.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end quality engineering activities, including test strategy, test planning, execution, defect management, and release validation.
• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Protractor, Java, TypeScript, Cucumber, TestNG, and JUnit.
• Create and execute automated and manual test cases for functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, API, database, mobile, and cross-browser testing.
• Perform API testing using Postman and SOAP UI, and performance testing using JMeter and NeoLoad.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Git, Maven, and GitHub Copilot.
• Perform data validation, backend testing, and defect analysis using Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure quality requirements are met throughout the SDLC.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and defect triage sessions.
• Identify testing risks, recommend process improvements, and drive automation best practices across teams.
• Support testing efforts for healthcare applications involving prior authorization, utilization management, provider portals, clinical workflows, and continuity of care.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Cypress

Protractor

Cucumber

TestNG

JUnit

Manual testing

Automation testing

Agile

Tools

GitHub Actions

Git

Maven

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Healthcare Quality Engineer to lead QA initiatives across complex healthcare applications. You will drive testing, build automation frameworks, and integrate testing into CI/CD with teams across business, development, and stakeholders.

This role emphasizes maintainable test suites, API and backend validation, and extensive hands-on automation using modern tools in a dynamic healthcare environment.