Remote Senior API Automation Engineer - AWS & AI Testing

Cognizant; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 71,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

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 drive intelligent testing across cloud-native applications. You will partner with developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Responsibilities include building automation frameworks with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman; validating REST APIs and microservices; applying AI tools for test

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software testing, with strong hands‑on experience in API automation.
• 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.

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 Assured

TestNG

Maven

Postman

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

Tools

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Postman

AWS

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions and drive intelligent testing across cloud-native applications. You will partner with developers, architects, business teams, and other technology stakeholders to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Responsibilities include building automation frameworks with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman; validating REST APIs and microservices; applying AI tools for test