Senior Program Manager - Quality Engineering & Automation

Cognizant; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Boston is seeking a Program Manager – Quality Engineering & Automation to lead enterprise-scale testing and automation initiatives across complex technology environments. You will define testing strategies, drive automation programs, and govern multiple workstreams with business, engineering, and QA partners.

This onsite role emphasizes shift-left testing, continuous testing, CI/CD integration, and data testing concepts, with strong leadership and executive communication required.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of extensive experience in Program Management, Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or related technology delivery disciplines.
• Strong Program Management capabilities including planning, governance, stakeholder management, resource planning, risk and dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Experience with automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, UFT, or similar technologies.
• Experience with ALM/Test Management and defect-management tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Quality Engineering and testing programs across multiple applications, platforms, and workstreams.
• Define and drive enterprise testing strategies covering functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, and other testing areas.
• Lead and oversee test automation programs, including automation strategy, roadmap, implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive program governance including planning, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, metrics, and executive reporting.
• Partner with business, engineering, product, and QA stakeholders to align testing priorities with program and business objectives.
• Drive adoption of modern Quality Engineering practices, including shift-left testing, continuous testing, and automation within CI/CD environments.
• Support effective test planning, test execution, defect management, release readiness, and quality reporting.
• Apply a working understanding of data testing, including data validation, reconciliation, source-to-target validation, and basic database/SQL concepts.
• Support the adoption of GenAI/AI-enabled capabilities within the testing lifecycle, such as test design, test-case generation, test-data generation, defect analysis, and other productivity use cases.
• Establish KPIs and quality metrics to provide visibility into testing progress, automation, risks, defects, and overall release quality.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive resolution of complex program dependencies and delivery risks.

Skills

Program management

Quality engineering

Software testing

Stakeholder management

Executive reporting

Leadership

Communication

Agile/DevOps

CI/CD

Automation strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Tosca

UFT

ALM

Job description

Cognizant in Boston is seeking a Program Manager – Quality Engineering & Automation to lead enterprise-scale testing and automation initiatives across complex technology environments. You will define testing strategies, drive automation programs, and govern multiple workstreams with business, engineering, and QA partners.

This onsite role emphasizes shift-left testing, continuous testing, CI/CD integration, and data testing concepts, with strong leadership and executive communication required.