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QE Automation Engineer

Cognizant
Full-time
On-site
South Carolina
Technology & Engineering

QE Automation Engineer

This is a remote position open to any qualified applicant in the United States

Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking a “QE Automation Engineer” to join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are seeking an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you!

About Cognizant’s QEA Practice:

We are the largest Quality Assurance Practice Globally servicing 800+ Clients. We bring the industry leading vision and expertise to help with Quality Engineering transformation journey for our reputed clients. We provide Next Gen QA offerings like System Modernization assurance, Business Process Assurance, Quality Engineering, Cloud Platform Assurance, Customer Experience Assurance and Robotic Test Automation. We have been ranked #1 for Market Impact by Everest Group for four times in a row and ranked #1 for completeness of vision, test advisory and Digital Business Assurance in Gartner Magic Quadrant.

QE Automation Engineer

Qualifications

• 8 + years of QA experience with agile practices

• Expertise in Writing, Enhancing and Executing automated scripts for test cases

• Experience in Selenium and Rest assured framework

• Experience Customization of automation frameworks using Keyword Driven, Hybrid.

• Hands on experience in Java and Oops concepts

• Expertise in developing and executing the manual test scenarios and test cases.

• Extensive Experience in Object Identification using XPath or other object locators.

• Good Experience in Unit Test frameworks like JUnit, TestNG and build tool like Maven.

• Debugging and executing the Automation scripts.

• Experience in version control tool like SVN/GitHub

• Good Communication Skill and Proven leadership skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver for UI testing.

Build and execute REST API test cases using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or HTTP client libraries in Java.

Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

Collaborate with QA leads and developers to define test strategies, test plans, and automation scope.

Collaborate with QA leads and developers to define test strategies, test plans, and automation scope.

Log, track, and verify defects using tools like JIRA

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 9/26/2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $ 53,477/- to $ 92,500/- depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

- 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.