Senior SDET – Playwright/Selenium Automation at Cognizant
Olympia, WA
$53,477–$92,500from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Olympia, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level quality engineering role focused on building and maintaining automated test frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, TypeScript, and Java. Day-to-day work involves creating functional, regression, and end-to-end test suites, embedding them into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve defects. Suited to an experienced automation engineer with 7+ years in test automation, ideally with some CI/CD and API testing background.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,650 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 2,200–5,400
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 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The 7+ years requirement is stated specifically for test automation using Playwright and/or Selenium; it is treated as the overall role-level experience gate.
Playwright and Selenium are listed as interchangeable ('and/or') in the requirements section; both are emitted as a single paired requirement with each as the other's alternative.
CI/CD pipeline integration and the specific tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) appear under the 'These will help you stand out' preferred section.
API testing, performance testing, Agile/Scrum, and healthcare domain experience all appear under the preferred 'stand out' section.
The advertised salary range ($53,477–$92,500/year) is notably wide and skews low for a 7+ year Senior SDET role; this may reflect a staffing/consulting pay structure at Cognizant.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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