Specialist - QA Automation Engineer
Cognizant
Date: 8 hours ago
City: Remote, Remote
Contract type: Full time
Remote
Title: Software QA Automation Engineer
What You’ll Do
What makes you a great fit
What You’ll Do
- Experience Range - 7 to 15 years
- Testing Strategy:
- Translate business requirements into detailed test plans and test cases
- Define balanced, risk-based strategies optimizing coverage vs. execution time
- Select effective testing approaches (manual, automated, exploratory) for each feature
- Defect Identification:
- Identify, reproduce, and report defects clearly, with detailed steps, logs, and recordings
- Verify new features and bugs manually, tracking each issue to resolution
- Work directly with users to capture detailed repro steps and logs before involving developers
- Perform root-cause analyses and drive corrective actions across product and processes
- Release Validation & Sign-off:
- Own the quality and readiness of every web and desktop (Electron) release
- Execute automated and manual tests for feature and full-release validation
- Test Automation:
- Design, build, and maintain a scalable Playwright-based test suite for web and Electron apps
- Continuously expand automation coverage (functional, regression, performance, security)
- Reduce flaky tests through effective wait strategies, retries, and error handling
- Research and recommend improvements to automation frameworks and tools
- Operations & Reporting:
- Build and maintain automated test result reporting systems
- Set up and manage test environments ensuring consistent test execution
- Monitor and maintain test execution in CI/CD environments
- Champion quality practices, influencing team testing and automation approaches
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and customers to improve automation
- Enhance product documentation based on test findings, known issues, and user interactions
- Collaboration:
- Assist with user acceptance testing and feature design
- Actively participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and requirements walkthroughs
What makes you a great fit
- Excellent English (C1+): Exceptional written and verbal communication; precise test and bug reporting
- Core Testing Skills:
- 3+ years QA experience, including 2+ in automation
- Strong knowledge of test design techniques (boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transitions)
- Proven experience creating comprehensive, risk-based test plans aligned with business and technical requirements
- Technical Proficiency:
- Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript with 1+ year experience in Playwright or Puppeteer (2+ preferred)
- Solid experience with Git (PR reviews, rebase, bisect, trunk-based workflows)
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- Product Sense: User-focused mindset; empathy and advocacy for excellent user experiences
- Soft Skills: Strong facilitator and negotiator across teams; excellent at expectation management
- Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitrise)
- Experience with AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate automation scripting
- Understanding of prompt engineering and AI ecosystem
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