Senior QA Automation Engineer - Playwright & Selenium

Cognizant is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to support critical financial applications. The role designs, executes, and maintains automated and manual testing solutions, including UI, API, and data validation, and collaborates with Agile teams to ensure application quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, execute, and maintain functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end test cases for web-based and business-critical applications
• Develop and maintain UI automation test scripts using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript and Selenium WebDriver with Java
• Build reusable automation components using appropriate framework patterns such as Page Object Model (POM), fixtures, reusable utilities, and data-driven testing
• Automate critical business workflows and regression scenarios to improve test coverage, repeatability, and execution efficiency
• Perform cross-browser UI validation and troubleshoot automation failures, locator issues, synchronization/wait conditions, and application changes
• Perform API functional and integration testing using tools/frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Playwright API testing, or similar technologies
• Develop automated API tests to validate request/response payloads, HTTP status codes, headers, authentication, error handling, and backend integration flows
• Execute data validation using SQL queries to verify data accuracy, integrity, transformation, and consistency between UI, APIs, and backend databases
• Integrate automated UI and API tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools to support continuous testing
• Analyze automated test execution results, identify failures, troubleshoot issues, and publish clear test execution and automation reports
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and release validation activities
• Identify, document, track, retest, and verify defects through resolution using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar defect-management tools
• Validate system integrations and ensure application stability across multiple environments
• Develop and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, automation suites, test data, traceability, and test execution reports
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Work closely with development teams to identify appropriate candidates for automation and support shift-left testing and continuous quality engineering practices
• Ensure compliance with established QA standards, automation best practices, and software development lifecycle processes
• Support functional and automated testing activities for financial and business-critical applications, with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and production readiness

Requirements:

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills