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We are seeking a SDET to join our client's team to drive innovation in AI-powered test automation. This role focuses on building and maintaining intelligent test automation infrastructure on AWS and CloudBees, with emphasis on self-healing scripts and AI-driven testing solutions. This is a great pportunity to work with cutting-edge AI and automation technologies.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks
- Deploy and configure reliable automation assets in CloudBees CI/CD pipelines
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues with automation infrastructure
- Create AI-based automation solutions using AWS Bedrock and frameworks like LangChain
- Integrate AI agents-and solutions with existing automation platforms
- Implement self-healing test scripts and Intelligent Test Automation (ITA) strategies
- Apply context engineering to ensure AI-driven testing relevance and coverage

This position is a contract to permanent opportunity offering a career stability and growth! This position is a hybrid opportunity (1-2x onsite per week in Maryland and/or Wash DC office).-

Required Skills

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field is preferred
- 5+ years of experience in software testing and test automation
- Proven experience with AI tools for test generation, refactoring, and self-healing
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building and scaling testing agents
- Knowledge of context engineering for AI-driven testing
- Experience with modern testing frameworks beyond Selenium
- Background in machine learning or AI applications
- Experience with microservices and containerized applications

Required Technical Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, Java/Selenium, SQL
- AI/ML Frameworks: AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Pandas, and other popular Machine Learning libraries
- Test Automation: Selenium, Playwright, API testing frameworks
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS services, Docker, Kubern

About Cognizant’s Quality Engineering & Assurance Team

Our Quality Engineering & Assurance team is the innovative engine at our company. We are a dedicated group of builders and problem-solvers responsible for the most critical, customer-facing platforms. Within this team, the Quality practice is not a downstream function but a fully integrated partner in development. Our mission is to embed quality into every stage of the lifecycle, and as a Quality Engineer, you will be on the front lines of this effort.

Position Overview

Are you a driven Quality Engineer passionate about building the future of testing? We are seeking a creative and hands-on QE to be a key contributor to our quality practice. This is an exciting opportunity to move beyond traditional QA and dive into the world of AI-driven testing, helping us build and maintain robust quality standards for our mission-critical intelligent applications that are redefining customer interaction.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks using Java and Python. Write clean, efficient, and scalable automation scripts for new features to ensure robust test coverage across all deliverables.
• Perform API testing: Understand API concepts, develop and execute functional tests, interpret Swagger YAML files, and validate endpoints using Postman or Rest Assured automation frameworks.
• Conduct database testing: Write and execute SQL queries to retrieve, update, and delete data, ensuring database integrity and reliability.
• Own quality for assigned features and components: Collaborate with product managers and developers on requirements analysis, create detailed test cases, execute comprehensive test suites (functional, integration, regression), and provide final quality sign-off.
• Track and report testing progress: Use tools such as JIRA, ADO, or ALM for defect logging and reporting, ensuring transparency of feature quality to the team and stakeholders. Also understanding of CI/CD co

Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience: Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent field. - Required,
• 3+ Years Experience developing test strategies, test plans, and test cases. - Required,
• Create and execute test cases; prepare test setups,
• Conduct regression testing and log/report defects,
• Research/resolve basic production support cases,
• Engage with development for clarifications and issue resolution,
• Use AI tools for basic tests creation, documentation, and analysis,
• Programming or scripting experience (Java, Python, JS, C#, or similar),
• Automation tools/frameworks: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, REST-Assured, JMeter, etc,
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing lifecycle, and SDLC,
• Agile methodology, DevSecOps exposure along with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.,
• SQL proficiency; ability to test web apps, APIs, and systems with minimal UI,
• Experience with JIRA/ALM/Xray or similar tools,
• Comfort using AI-powered testing tools, copilots, and analysis utilities,
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills,
• Ability to manage workload, collaborate in Agile teams, effectively, and work independently,
• (Desirable) Knowledge of QA concepts and test lifecycle,
• (Desirable) Basic SQL; familiarity with ALM/JIRA,
• (Desirable) Basic understanding of mobile development languages (Java/Objective-C/Swift/C#),
• (Desirable) Strong ability to learn quickly and meet deadlines

What the job involves
• The Sr. Specialist, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of applications through automation, technical testing, and deep collaboration with engineering teams,
• SDETs combine software development skills with quality engineering practices to design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks, tools, and test suites across UI, API, backend, and integrated systems f