Remote Senior Healthcare QA Engineer – Payer/Claims

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Healthcare QA Engineer – Payer/Claims. You will validate payer claims-processing workflows, perform EDI/X12 testing (837P/837I), and drive automation using Selenium or Playwright. Strong SQL/db validation and API testing experience are required.

Remote role open to qualified applicants in the United States. The team emphasizes collaboration across business, development, and QA to ensure high-quality healthcare claim outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software testing experience within Healthcare Payer claims-processing environments.
• Strong hands-on experience testing healthcare payer claims applications and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Analyze healthcare claims requirements, user stories, and business rules to develop comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing across healthcare payer claims-processing workflows.
• Validate the claims lifecycle, including pre-adjudication logic, business validations, claim edits, rejects, pend scenarios, and downstream claim outcomes.
• Perform EDI/X12 testing with focus on 837P and 837I transactions.
• Perform SQL and database validation, data analysis, reconciliation, and test-data preparation.
• Conduct API and integration testing to validate data exchange between applications.
• Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, and drive resolution.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium, Playwright, or similar tools.

Skills

Automation testing

API testing

SQL testing

AI-powered testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

PEGA

EDI/X12 testing tools

GenAI capabilities

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Healthcare QA Engineer – Payer/Claims. You will validate payer claims-processing workflows, perform EDI/X12 testing (837P/837I), and drive automation using Selenium or Playwright. Strong SQL/db validation and API testing experience are required.

Remote role open to qualified applicants in the United States. The team emphasizes collaboration across business, development, and QA to ensure high-quality healthcare claim outcomes.