Remote Senior API Automation Engineer — AWS & AI Testing

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 71,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions within the Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality cloud-native software delivery.

The role emphasizes automation frameworks in Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, and Maven, AI-assisted test generation, and validation of REST APIs, OAuth/JWT, and AWS services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software testing.
• Advanced experience developing API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices testing, JSON and XML validation, API contracts, schemas, OAuth, and JWT authentication.
• Experience integrating automated tests with Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience validating AWS-based applications and services, such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS or EKS, S3, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with SQL, backend database validation, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience using AI agents or generative AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI technologies, or Amazon Q, in testing or engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman.
• Automate REST API validation across integration, regression, and end-to-end testing scenarios for microservices-based applications.
• Apply AI agents and generative AI tools to support test generation, intelligent validation, and self-healing automation capabilities.
• Validate API contracts, JSON and XML schemas, OAuth and JWT authentication, database integrations, and service responses.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and AWS-based cloud-native applications, while collaborating with technical and business stakeholders to ensure quality delivery.

Skills

API automation

Quality engineering

Test automation

Tools

Java

Rest Assured

TestNG

Maven

Postman

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

S3

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions within the Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality cloud-native software delivery.

The role emphasizes automation frameworks in Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, and Maven, AI-assisted test generation, and validation of REST APIs, OAuth/JWT, and AWS services.