Lead Quality Engineer

Cognizant

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Johns Creek, GA
Salary
$83,100–$131,500 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

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This role pays less than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $158,000–$222,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $107k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer (Portfolio) – Hybrid As a Lead Quality Engineer (Portfolio), you will join the Software Engineering Group to lead quality engineering delivery and transformation across a retail portfolio. You will provide hands-on support to an assigned product team by completing Jira stories, including manual test design, test automation, and sign-off activities. Your responsibilities include coordinating with offshore quality engineers to meet service-level agreements, resolving defects, and managing test-data constraints. You will utilize AI-enabled approaches to improve productivity and release quality. Required technical skills include hands-on programming in Java, Python, or JavaScript, along with experience using Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress for user-interface and API test automation. This role requires domain expertise in retail areas such as supply chain, digital marketing, merchandising, or stores.

What you'll do

  • Lead quality engineering delivery and transformation across the retail portfolio.
  • Complete Jira stories including manual test design, test automation, and sign-off activities.
  • Coordinate with offshore quality engineers to meet delivery expectations and KPIs.
  • Resolve defects, test-data constraints, and environment issues to remove delivery roadblocks.
  • Use AI-enabled approaches to improve daily productivity and release quality.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders and product teams.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of information technology or quality engineering experience.
  • Experience leading a large quality engineering team or portfolio.
  • At least 3 years of experience in the retail industry.
  • Hands-on programming experience with Java, Python, or JavaScript.
  • Experience with Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress for user-interface and API test automation.
  • At least 1 year of hands-on generative AI experience.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Experience leading quality transformation across a complex portfolio (preferred).

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