Senior Cypress Automation Engineer - Remote Healthcare Testing

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 53,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Cypress Automation Engineer to design, develop, and execute automated testing for healthcare applications within an Agile team. You will focus on Cypress automation, API testing, and functional testing while collaborating with product owners, analysts, and developers to ensure high-quality releases.

You will automate regression tests, build reusable components, and validate APIs using Postman/SoapUI, with backend validation in Oracle or SQL Server.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in functional testing, including test planning, test-case development, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Three or more years of hands-on experience developing, maintaining, and executing automated test scripts using Cypress.
• Strong experience automating regression test cases and building reusable Cypress automation components, test data, and test suites.
• Strong experience in API testing using Postman, SoapUI, or comparable tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Cypress, with a focus on automating regression test cases.
• Build reusable automation components, test suites, test cases, and test data to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and developers to translate business requirements into test strategies, plans, approaches, and detailed test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, API, database, release, and User Acceptance Testing across Agile release cycles.
• Validate APIs and web services using Postman, SoapUI, or similar tools, and perform backend data validation using Oracle or MS SQL Server.
• Manage defects and prepare test-execution reports, supporting evidence, and release-quality summaries using Jira and qTest.
• Coordinate with Product Owners to identify critical business scenarios and support UAT planning and execution.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily Scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Skills

Cypress automation

API testing

Functional testing

Healthcare testing

Test planning

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

Jira

qTest

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Cypress Automation Engineer to design, develop, and execute automated testing for healthcare applications within an Agile team. You will focus on Cypress automation, API testing, and functional testing while collaborating with product owners, analysts, and developers to ensure high-quality releases.

You will automate regression tests, build reusable components, and validate APIs using Postman/SoapUI, with backend validation in Oracle or SQL Server.