QA Automation Engineer – Healthcare

Cognizant is a leading technology and engineering company, and they are seeking a QA Automation Engineer specialized in healthcare. The role involves ensuring the quality and performance of healthcare applications, collaborating with various teams to design test scenarios, and executing comprehensive testing across multiple environments.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and development teams to analyze requirements and design comprehensive test scenarios and test cases
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and data validation testing across Pega-based healthcare applications
• Validate data migration processes involving Teradata, Snowflake, Oracle, and PostgreSQL environments
• Perform API, cloud, and Kafka integration testing while ensuring end-to-end system quality
• Develop and execute automated test suites using Tosca and other automation tools while managing defects and test execution through Jira and qTest

Requirements:

• Strong experience testing applications built on Pega Infinity 25.x
• Expertise in manual functional, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Hands-on experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL database testing, including complex data validation activities
• Experience validating data migration processes involving Teradata and Snowflake platforms
• Experience in cloud testing, including private AWS environments and ingress/egress configurations
• Hands-on experience with Tosca (Tricentis) for model-based test automation
• Experience performing API and service validation using Postman, Ready API, or similar tools
• Experience testing event-driven integrations using Confluent Kafka and Test containers
• Experience working in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery cycles
• Strong experience with defect and test management tools such as Jira and qTest
• Healthcare Payer domain experience
• Experience supporting Medicare and Medicaid business processes
• Experience with Appeals & Grievances (A&G) systems
• Understanding of CMS regulatory and compliance requirements
• Experience working with large-scale healthcare transformation programs