Headline

Automation Test Engineer @Cognizant | Automation Testing | Manual Testing | BDD | Jenkins | CI/CD | Selenium | Java | API Testing

About

Automation Test Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering reliable and scalable testing solutions across web and enterprise applications in banking and healthcare domains. Experienced in working with Selenium WebDriver (Java), TestNG, and Cucumber (BDD) within Page Object Model (POM)-based frameworks, contributing to modular, maintainable, and data-driven test suites. Strong focus on functional, regression, and end-to-end testing, ensuring high-quality releases and stable application performance. Proven experience in automating critical regression scenarios and supporting large-scale test execution cycles. Adept at identifying defect leakage, improving flaky test stability, and enhancing overall test coverage. Hands-on expertise in API testing using Postman, including request/response validation, status code verification, and JSON/XML payload validation. Strong backend validation experience using SQL across Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring data integrity through complex queries (joins, subqueries, and aggregations). Skilled in integrating automation workflows into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Git, enabling faster feedback cycles and improved release efficiency. Comfortable working in Agile environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to test planning, execution, and defect management. Also experienced in leveraging Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to enhance test case design, generate edge scenarios, and create test data, improving productivity and efficiency in QA processes. Technical Skills: Programming & Languages: Java, SQL, JSON Automation & Testing: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Page Object Model (POM), Data-Driven Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Parallel Execution API Testing: REST API Testing, Postman, JSON/XML Validation CI/CD & Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Git, GitHub Test Management: JIRA, PractiTest, qtest AI in QA: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Prompt Engineering, LLM-assisted Test Case Design, Test Data Generation

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

Associate at Cognizant, Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Hybrid

Programmer analyst at Cognizant, Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Hybrid

Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant, Sep 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Intern at Cognizant, Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 · 4 mos

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical, St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering & Technology

Higher secondary certificate, Vidya Niketan junior college Chandrapur