Senior QA Automation Engineer: Playwright & Selenium

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 50,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright & Selenium to join our Quality Engineering team supporting critical financial applications. You will design, implement, and maintain automated and manual test solutions, collaborating with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to ensure application quality and performance in an Agile setting.

The role emphasizes automation across UI and API testing, data validation, and CI/CD integration, with remote work flexibility within the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experience in Agile development environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain test cases for web-based applications across functional and end-to-end testing.
• Develop and maintain UI automation scripts with Playwright and Selenium.
• Build reusable automation components using Page Object Model (POM), fixtures, reusable utilities, and data-driven testing.
• Automate critical business workflows and regression scenarios to improve coverage, repeatability, and execution efficiency.
• Perform API functional and integration testing using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Playwright API testing, or similar.
• Execute data validation using SQL queries to verify data accuracy and integrity across UI, APIs, and databases.
• Integrate automated UI and API tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or Azure DevOps.

Skills

QA automation

API testing

analytical thinking

communication

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Java

TypeScript/JavaScript

Postman

REST Assured

SQL

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright & Selenium to join our Quality Engineering team supporting critical financial applications. You will design, implement, and maintain automated and manual test solutions, collaborating with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to ensure application quality and performance in an Agile setting.

The role emphasizes automation across UI and API testing, data validation, and CI/CD integration, with remote work flexibility within the