Remote Senior API Automation Engineer: AWS & AI Testing

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 71,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

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 practices across cloud-native applications. You will work within the Quality Engineering team alongside developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.

You will design and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman; automate REST API validation for

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

Java

REST API testing

CI/CD integration

AI in testing

Tools

Rest Assured

TestNG

Maven

Postman

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions and advance intelligent testing practices across cloud-native applications. You will work within the Quality Engineering team alongside developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.

You will design and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman; automate REST API validation for