We are seeking a hardworking Software Development Engineer in Test to join our growing team in our banking practice at Cognizant! Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse set of backgrounds offer a wide range of perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our people and clients. We're looking for someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft significant solutions through true partnership. 

This role is located in Halifax, NS.

 Roles/Responsibilities:

• Working within agile (Safe-agile) development teams with a BDD approach and supporting the developers to quality assure developments early.
• Setting up framework and standards, manage all the automation setup activities.
• Utilize development skills, data manipulation skills and scripting skills to engineer technical, repeatable tests
• Undertaking all forms of functional and non-functional testing
• Coordinating automation testing activities of your team and others
• Report on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.

 Requirements:

• Test automation using Cucumber test automation tool and Gherkin scripting language.
• Must have Skill Set -> Java, Selenium BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin, Serenity, Web Services-REST, Web Services-SOAP
• Understanding of how to manufacture and manage test data in an enterprise-class development environment.
• Familiarity with development build and deployment environment (e.g. Maven, Github, Jenkins).
• Should have an experience in CI/CD