QA Automation Engineer – Playwright & API at Cognizant
Raleigh, NC
$53,477–$92,500from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Raleigh, NC
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote QA Automation Engineer role at Cognizant focused on building and maintaining Playwright-based UI test frameworks and API automation suites for enterprise clients. The position involves coordinating with offshore QA teams, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supporting the full quality engineering lifecycle from test design through defect management. Suited to an experienced QA engineer comfortable leading distributed teams and working in Agile environments.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 3,400–8,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The salary range ($53,477–$92,500/year) is notably wide and skews low for a role requiring 6+ years of QA automation experience; hiring managers should be aware this may affect candidate competitiveness.
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps are listed together as interchangeable CI/CD pipeline options in the requirements section; Jenkins is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives. Azure DevOps also appears separately as a required defect management tool.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and Python are listed as interchangeable language options for Playwright; JavaScript is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Rest Assured is listed as the named API automation framework with 'comparable frameworks' as an open-ended qualifier — no specific alternatives are named, so none are listed.
QA team leadership and performance/integration/end-to-end testing appear only under the 'These Will Help You Stand Out' (preferred) section.
The role is open to US-based applicants only; no visa sponsorship is available. No specific metro is listed — the position is fully remote within the United States.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API test automation, QA team leadership.
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