Senior QA Automation Engineer: Playwright & Selenium

Cognizant; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 50,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

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, execute, and maintain automated and manual test solutions, collaborate with developers and business analysts, and ensure quality and performance across the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities include UI/API testing, data validation with SQL, CI/CD integration, and defect management, in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of Software QA and Testing.
• Experience in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain test cases for web-based and business-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain UI automation scripts using Playwright and Selenium WebDriver.
• Build reusable automation components with POM, fixtures, utilities, and data-driven testing.
• Automate critical workflows and regression scenarios to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Perform cross-browser UI validation and troubleshoot automation issues.
• Perform API functional and integration testing with Postman/REST Assured/Playwright API.
• Develop automated API tests for payloads, status codes, headers, and authentication.
• Execute data validation using SQL to verify UI, API, and database data.
• Integrate UI and API tests with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Analyze results, troubleshoot, and publish test reports.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during UAT and release validation.
• Track defects using Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Validate system integrations across environments.
• Maintain test plans, data, and execution reports.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and shift-left testing.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Postman

REST Assured

SQL

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, execute, and maintain automated and manual test solutions, collaborate with developers and business analysts, and ensure quality and performance across the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities include UI/API testing, data validation with SQL, CI/CD integration, and defect management, in an Agile environment.