Senior SDET – QA Automation (Playwright & Selenium) at Cognizant
Santa Fe, NM
$53,477–$92,500from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Santa Fe, NM
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior quality engineering role focused on building and maintaining automated test frameworks using Playwright and Selenium, with Java as the primary language. Day-to-day work involves creating functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites, wiring them into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with development and product teams to resolve defects. Suits an experienced automation engineer with 7+ years of hands-on framework development.
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 3,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 1,400–5,000
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 (5)
The 7+ years experience requirement is stated against 'Playwright and/or Selenium test automation' specifically, so it is captured on those skills rather than as a standalone role-level figure; however, it effectively sets the overall experience floor and is also reflected in the overall years minimum.
Playwright and Selenium are listed together with 'and/or' in the requirements section, making them interchangeable gates — each is emitted as a required skill with the other as its alternative.
AccelQ, Cypress, and Cucumber appear in the required section under 'automation tools such as' — the 'such as' qualifier means the specific tools are interchangeable, but the requirement for automation tooling experience is a hard gate; all three named tools are captured as required.
CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), API testing, performance testing, and Healthcare domain experience all appear under the 'These will help you stand out' section, marking them as preferred/nice-to-have.
The role is fully remote, open to US-based applicants only; no CBSA is applicable.
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