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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.
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Listed pay typically runs
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Quality Engineer II - Automation will join the team to perform software integration testing, black-box testing, and test automation across complex software and device environments. The role involves designing, developing, and automating tests for functional, integration, and end-to-end validation while analyzing failures, triaging issues, and reviewing logs to identify root causes. Responsibilities include flashing, provisioning, and configuring multiple devices in a lab environment, maintaining test infrastructure, and validating application code and machine learning models. Candidates must possess expert programming skills in Swift, Objective-C, Python, or Java, along with working knowledge of Xcode. The role requires experience in multi-device automation labs, shell scripting, XCTest, Git, and Unix administration. This position focuses on ensuring product quality through rigorous testing of software systems and AI-enabled products within a complex hardware and software ecosystem.
Perform software integration testing, black-box testing, and test automation across complex device environments.
Design, develop, and automate new tests for functional, integration, and end-to-end validation.
Analyze test failures, review logs, and perform root cause analysis to triage issues.
Flash, provision, configure, and set up multiple devices in a lab environment.
Maintain and troubleshoot multi-device lab environments used for automation execution and continuous validation.
Enhance and maintain automated tests that validate application code and machine learning models.
Maintain test automation frameworks, monitoring pipelines, and infrastructure.
Escalate and report key quality issues while driving them through investigation and resolution.
What we're looking for
Must have 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Development Engineer, Software Quality Engineer, Automation Quality Engineer, or related role.
Expert programming skills in Swift, Objective-C, Python, or Java with working knowledge of Xcode.
Experience performing black-box testing and end-to-end functional validation.
Hands-on experience flashing, provisioning, configuring, and managing devices in a lab environment.
Experience setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting multi-device automation test labs.
Strong triage and debugging skills including log analysis, failure isolation, and root cause analysis.
Experience designing, developing, executing, and maintaining automated tests.
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