It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. We help clients engage customers by envisioning and building creative products and services. But we do not stop there. We develop go-to-market strategies and invent entirely new business models ensuring that every company we work with walks away with both inspiration and a plan. Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

What do you need to succeed?

Required Skills:

• Understanding of Test environment needs, support environmental setup, DevOps.
• Be QA Environment Owner – define the role/responsibilities of the “owner” of the GC QA environments.
• Orchestration – identify all processes that move data or interact with the systems in some way (batch jobs, ETL’s, API’s, etc).  Define a way for QA staff to manage these jobs (eg, a way to run the jobs on an adhoc basis).
• Environment Assignment Management – define a way to manage the use of QA environments (eg, a way to identify who is using what environment, and for what purpose).
• Extensive experience in Release and Env management.
• Hands on experience in creating environment plans, deployment needs and support functions.
• Act as a key point of contact for all QA related matters, provide QA services and coordinate work for QA analysts both local and remote.
•  Strong communication and collaboration with diff stakeholders.
• Define QA Best Practices  to deliver the project.
• Solid knowledge of JIRA and Confluence collaboration tools. 
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within a team.  
• Expert knowledge of Software Development Release Cycles and Defect Management. 
• Proficient in designing test strategies and coordinate work efforts on multiple projects. 
• Provide technical and non-technical guidance to QA analysts on existing and next-generation QA activities.  
• Create time estimates for QA testing activities. 
• Contribute to an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Work towards improvement of formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.  

Nice to have:

• Experience in migration/ conversion programs with expertise in  multi integration and regulatory third party integrated environments for test.

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different 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 are seeking someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration. If you are excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we would love to hear from you