Remote Senior API Automation Engineer | AWS & AI Testing

Cognizant; Columbus (OH); Remote; 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 a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions and advance intelligent testing across cloud-native applications. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and collaborate with developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to support high-quality software delivery.

In this role you will design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in quality engineering, test automation, or software testing with API automation experience.
• Advanced API automation framework development using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman.
• Strong REST API, microservices testing, JSON/XML validation, and API contracts knowledge.
• Experience integrating tests with Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience validating AWS-based applications and services (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch).
• Experience using AI agents or generative AI tools in testing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks.
• Automate REST API validation across integration, regression, and end-to-end tests for microservices.
• Apply AI agents and generative AI tools to support test generation and self-healing automation.
• Validate API contracts, schemas, OAuth/JWT auth, and integrate tests into CI/CD and AWS cloud-native apps.

Skills

API automation

Java

Rest Assured

TestNG

Maven

Postman

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Docker

Tools

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Postman

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions and advance intelligent testing across cloud-native applications. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and collaborate with developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to support high-quality software delivery.

In this role you will design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured,