Senior API Automation Engineer – AI/Cloud Testing (Remote)

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 71,000 - 113,000; 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 in the United States 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 build automation frameworks with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman, validate REST APIs, and apply AI tools to generate tests and enable self-healing automation.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with opportunities to

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.
• 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 Assured

TestNG

Maven

Postman

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

Docker

AWS

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Cognizant in the United States 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 build automation frameworks with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman, validate REST APIs, and apply AI tools to generate tests and enable self-healing automation.

This remote role is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with opportunities to