Senior Test Automation Engineer with Playwright experience at Cognizant
Providence, RI
$53,477–$92,500from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Providence, RI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior quality engineering role centered on building and maintaining test automation frameworks with Playwright, JavaScript/TypeScript, and supporting tools. Day-to-day work spans automated UI, API, regression, and end-to-end testing, backend data validation with SQL, and embedding tests into CI/CD pipelines. Suits an experienced QA engineer comfortable in Agile/BDD environments and distributed delivery teams.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 4,150–10,400
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 (8)
The JD lists both JavaScript and TypeScript as acceptable ('JavaScript and/or TypeScript'); JavaScript is emitted as the primary skill with TypeScript as an alternative.
Postman and REST Assured are listed as interchangeable examples for API testing tooling; both are captured under one skill entry with REST Assured as the alternative.
GitHub Actions and Jenkins are listed together as CI/CD tools; GitHub Actions is emitted as primary with Jenkins as the alternative. A separate CI/CD skill is retained to capture the broader pipeline integration requirement.
Insurance industry experience and experience evaluating new automation tools appear only under the 'These will help you stand out' (preferred/nice-to-have) section.
The posted salary range ($53,477–$92,500/year) is notably wide and skews low for a Senior QA role with 6+ years required; this may reflect geographic spread across a fully-remote national candidate pool or Cognizant's internal leveling conventions.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Test automation framework evaluation.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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