Senior Test Automation Engineer

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to lead automation initiatives for mission-critical loan servicing applications. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams to enhance software quality and accelerate delivery.

The role emphasizes designing scalable automation, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and driving test data management across functional and API testing. A hybrid work model is supported in Coppell, Texas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related technical discipline, or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience leading manual and automation testing programs for large, complex enterprise applications.
• Four or more years of hands-on experience designing, developing, implementing, and executing automated test scripts.
• Strong experience with Selenium-based automation frameworks and at least one programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#.
• Experience developing test strategies and plans across functional, regression, smoke, sanity, API, and automated testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Bamboo.
• Hands-on experience with API testing, defect management, and version-control tools such as Postman, Jira, Azure DevOps, Git, or GitHub.
• Ability to estimate testing efforts, communicate execution status, document software defects, and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an enterprise test automation strategy aligned with software development, quality engineering, and business objectives.
• Design and maintain scalable automation solutions for regression, smoke, sanity, API, mobile, and performance testing, ensuring appropriate test coverage, traceability, and reusability.
• Establish automation success metrics, measure automation effectiveness and return on investment, and communicate results to management.
• Define approaches for test-data management, stable automation environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and integration with DevOps tools.
• Partner with cross-functional product, engineering, architecture, and business teams to prioritize automation, support in-sprint testing, estimate delivery efforts, and drive process improvements throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Selenium

Java

Python

JavaScript

C#

CI/CD

Postman

Jira

Git

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bamboo

Appium

JMeter

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or MIS

Tools

Postman

Jira

Git

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bamboo

Appium

JMeter

Job description

About The Role

As a Senior Test Automation Engineer, you will make an impact by leading test automation initiatives for mission-critical loan servicing applications. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and work collaboratively with product teams, software development leads, architects, business partners, and other stakeholders to improve software quality and accelerate delivery.

In This Role, You Will

• Develop and execute an enterprise test automation strategy aligned with software development, quality engineering, and business objectives.
• Design and maintain scalable automation solutions for regression, smoke, sanity, API, mobile, and performance testing, ensuring appropriate test coverage, traceability, and reusability.
• Establish automation success metrics, measure automation effectiveness and return on investment, and communicate results to management.
• Define approaches for test-data management, stable automation environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and integration with DevOps tools.
• Partner with cross-functional product, engineering, architecture, and business teams to prioritize automation, support in-sprint testing, estimate delivery efforts, and drive process improvements throughout the software development lifecycle.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position in Coppell, Texas. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you are engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What You Need To Have To Be Considered

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading manual and automation testing programs for large, complex enterprise applications.
• Four or more years of hands‑on experience designing, developing, implementing, and executing automated test scripts.
• Strong experience with Selenium‑based automation frameworks and at least one programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#.
• Experience developing test strategies and plans across functional, regression, smoke, sanity, API, and automated testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Bamboo.
• Hands‑on experience with API testing, defect management, and version‑control tools such as Postman, Jira, Azure DevOps, Git, or GitHub.
• Ability to estimate testing efforts, communicate execution status, document software defects, and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

These will help you stand out

• Experience with behavior‑driven development, test‑driven development, scriptless automation, or robotic automation frameworks.
• Experience with Appium for mobile testing and JMeter for performance and load testing.
• Working knowledge of Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Bugzilla, or SVN.
• Prior experience with Qualitia.
• Experience supporting mortgage servicing, loan servicing, banking, or financial‑services applications.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long‑term/Short‑term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan