Senior QA Automation Engineer with Capital Markets and Gen AI experience
Cognizant · Columbia, SC
$71,100–$112,500from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Columbia, SC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level quality engineering role focused on financial technology platforms, where the primary work involves building and maintaining test automation frameworks, designing end-to-end testing strategies, and integrating quality practices into CI/CD pipelines. The position sits within an Agile team serving capital markets or related domains, and suits an experienced QA engineer with a background in Selenium/Cucumber automation, SQL, and some exposure to AI-assisted testing approaches.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 26 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 1,250–3,050
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 (8)
AWS is listed under required qualifications with the qualifier 'preferably AWS' — this signals cloud experience is a hard gate while AWS is the preferred platform; Azure and GCP are captured as alternatives.
Java and Python appear together as interchangeable options ('such as Java or Python') under the required section; Java is listed as primary with Python as the alternative.
Capital Markets / FinTech domain experience is explicitly required ('What you need to have') but names no specific technology or tool, so it is not emitted as a skill.
Karate and Carina appear under the 'These will help you stand out' (preferred) section alongside 'or similar modern testing tools'; they are treated as a single preferred requirement with Carina as the alternative.
PL/SQL, NoSQL, Linux/Unix, and Jenkins all appear exclusively under the preferred 'These will help you stand out' section.
Generative AI / Agentic AI tools appear both in the role narrative and under the preferred section; the preferred section framing ('Exposure to Generative AI tools') governs.
The alternative occupation runner-up (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects that the role involves designing automation frameworks and writing code, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly QA/testing-focused.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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