Remote Senior QA Engineer - Healthcare Payer Claims & EDI

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; 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 Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Healthcare QA Engineer – Payer/Claims to ensure quality of payer claims-processing applications and integrations. You will validate complex claims workflows, EDI/X12 transactions, backend data, and downstream outcomes.

You will design test scenarios from requirements, execute functional and end-to-end tests, perform SQL validation, and develop automated tests using Selenium or Playwright, with AI-assisted testing where applicable.

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.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end claims lifecycle, including pre-adjudication, validations, claim edits, rejects, pend processing, and downstream claim outcomes.
• Hands-on experience testing EDI/X12 healthcare claims transactions, particularly 837P and 837I.
• Strong SQL and database-testing skills, including backend data validation, reconciliation, and test-data preparation.
• Experience creating and executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing for complex claims-processing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Analyze healthcare claims requirements, user stories, and business rules to develop 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 transaction testing with a strong focus on 837P and 837I transactions and related healthcare claims interfaces.
• Perform SQL and database validation, data analysis, reconciliation, and test-data preparation to support test execution.
• Conduct API and integration testing to validate accurate data exchange between upstream and downstream applications.
• Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, collaborate with development teams, and drive issues through resolution and closure.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium, Playwright, or similar automation frameworks, while leveraging AI-assisted testing techniques where applicable.

Skills

Healthcare QA

Payer claims testing

EDI/X12 testing

SQL/database testing

API testing

Automation testing

GenAI testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Healthcare QA Engineer – Payer/Claims to ensure quality of payer claims-processing applications and integrations. You will validate complex claims workflows, EDI/X12 transactions, backend data, and downstream outcomes.

You will design test scenarios from requirements, execute functional and end-to-end tests, perform SQL validation, and develop automated tests using Selenium or Playwright, with AI-assisted testing where applicable.