Senior QA Automation Engineer (Remote) | Playwright & Java

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 53,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable web automation frameworks using Playwright and Selenium in Java. You will integrate tests into CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps and collaborate closely with developers, analysts, product owners, and DevOps to ensure broad test coverage.

The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, test-data strategies, and continuous improvement in a flexible remote US setting.

Qualifications

• At least six years of web automation experience with Playwright or Selenium.
• Hands-on Java programming experience for developing automation frameworks and test scripts.
• Experience with Cucumber and behavior-driven development practices.
• Strong experience in functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to design, execute, and maintain test cases based on business and technical requirements.
• Experience analyzing automated test results, investigating failures, documenting defects, and supporting defect resolution.
• Experience building reusable automation components and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable web automation frameworks using Playwright and/or Selenium with Java.
• Implement functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing solutions across multiple applications and platforms.
• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Develop and execute test cases, analyze test results, document defects, and collaborate with development teams to support timely resolution.
• Establish test-data strategies, automation standards, reusable components, and quality engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, product owners, and DevOps teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Participate in requirements reviews, test planning, risk assessments, and release-readiness activities.
• Monitor automation coverage, testing efficiency, defect trends, and quality metrics while driving continuous improvement.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

Java

Cucumber

BDD

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Test automation

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable web automation frameworks using Playwright and Selenium in Java. You will integrate tests into CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps and collaborate closely with developers, analysts, product owners, and DevOps to ensure broad test coverage.

The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, test-data strategies, and continuous improvement in a flexible remote US setting.