Remote Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright & Selenium

Cognizant; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 50,000 - 93,000; 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 QA Automation Engineer to drive test automation for financial applications, focusing on Playwright and Selenium, API testing, and data verification. You will design, implement, and maintain automated and manual tests across SDLC within an Agile environment.

Collaborate with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to ensure quality, reliability, and performance; participate in UAT and release validation; support CI/CD with Jenkins/Azure DevOps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end test cases for web-based and business-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain UI automation test scripts using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript and Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• Build reusable automation components using Page Object Model (POM), fixtures, reusable utilities, and data-driven testing.
• Automate critical business workflows and regression scenarios to improve test coverage, repeatability, and execution efficiency.
• Perform cross-browser UI validation and troubleshoot automation failures, locator issues, synchronization/wait conditions, and application changes.
• Perform API functional and integration testing using tools/frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Playwright API testing, or similar technologies.
• Develop automated API tests to validate request/response payloads, HTTP status codes, headers, authentication, error handling, and backend integration flows.
• Execute data validation using SQL queries to verify data accuracy, integrity, transformation, and consistency between UI, APIs, and backend databases.
• Integrate automated UI and API tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools to support continuous testing.
• Analyze automated test execution results, identify failures, troubleshoot issues, and publish clear test execution and automation reports.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and release validation activities.
• Identify, document, track, retest, and verify defects through resolution using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar defect-management tools.
• Validate system integrations and ensure application stability across multiple environments.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, automation suites, test data, traceability, and test execution reports.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with development teams to identify appropriate candidates for automation and support shift-left testing and continuous quality engineering practices.
• Ensure compliance with established QA standards, automation best practices, and software development lifecycle processes.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

Functional validation

Data verification

Agile

UAT

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Postman

REST Assured

SQL

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to drive test automation for financial applications, focusing on Playwright and Selenium, API testing, and data verification. You will design, implement, and maintain automated and manual tests across SDLC within an Agile environment.

Collaborate with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to ensure quality, reliability, and performance; participate in UAT and release validation; support CI/CD with Jenkins/Azure DevOps.