Software Test Engineer

(International Opportunity- Relocation Required)

At Cognizant, we are dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses — helping them go from doing digital to being digital. With the capacity to support various clients, we offer a world of opportunities for both professionals and graduates. You can expect five-star training, a chance to realize your career goals, and a range of benefits.

Be Cognizant!

As a Software Test Engineer will be part of multi-disciplinary and globally distributed Agile/Scrum teams and must be good communicators with customers and other project stakeholders. They must also exhibit strong debugging and problem-solving skills along with experience working with engineering approaches.

We are looking for a confident Tester with at least 3 years of experience in a similar position.

• Build advanced automated test suites to exercise our world-class applications
• Work with the development and other engineering teams to automate testing, applying risk-based strategy
• Conduct research on emerging technologies
• Analyse and decompose complicated software systems and design a strategy to test these systems
• Work with Product Owner and Business Analyst to craft user story acceptance criteria
• Perform time boxed exploratory testing
• Maintain regression test suite in QA nightly build
• Actively refine smoke test suite in Development CI environment
• Lead system integration testing with other system owners
• Manage user acceptance testing
• Manage defect life cycle, test artefacts and repository
• Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices and tools
• Take on secondary role as an Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer
• Conduct static and dynamic application security testing (SAST and DAST)
• Conduct load and performance testing to identify systems bottleneck

• Minimum 3 years' experience in application exploratory testing and regression test automation, application performance testing, and/or application security testing
• Meticulous attention to details
• Good analytical, interpersonal, presentation and listening skills
• Experience with Robot Framework, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Javascript based automation framework, HP Testing Tools (Mobile Center, UFT, QC and Sprinter) or EggPlant will be an added advantage
• Experience with one or more of the programming languages from Java, Python, Javascript
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or related disciplines

• Experience with open source penetration testing tools like ZAP, Burp Suite, SQL Map, etc or enterprise level pentest tools (HP WebInspect, Nessus or CheckMarx)
• Experience in agile development environment will be an added advantage
• Certified Software Testing Professional and/or Certified Software Quality Analyst will be an added advantage

• Good communication skills
• Good work ethic
• Ability to work both independently as well as in team
• Good problem-solving abilities
• Good team player

• Opportunity to be part of a global organization focused on development
• Open-minded and multinational environment
• Training & development opportunities
• Professional development and clear career path
• Extensive benefits package: medical healthcare & life insurance
• Assistance in moving to Singapore