Senior API Automation Engineer-AI Cloud Testing (Remote)

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); 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 is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions within a Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality software delivery.

In this remote US-based role, you will build frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman, automate REST API validations, and leverage AI tools to enhance test generation and self-healing automation while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in quality engineering or test automation.
• Advanced API automation framework development with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, JSON/XML validation.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Docker, and CI/CD.
• Hands-on AWS-based applications and services (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable API automation frameworks.
• Automate REST API validation across integration, regression, and end-to-end tests for microservices.
• Apply AI agents and generative AI tools to support test generation and self-healing automation.
• Validate API contracts, schemas, and authentication methods.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and AWS cloud-native apps.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Java

REST API testing

AWS

AI testing

Tools

Rest Assured

Postman

Maven

Git

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior API Automation Engineer (AWS & AI Testing) to design scalable API automation solutions within a Quality Engineering team. You will collaborate with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality software delivery.

In this remote US-based role, you will build frameworks using Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven, and Postman, automate REST API validations, and leverage AI tools to enhance test generation and self-healing automation while