Entry-level Quality Engineer

Cognizant

New York, NY

Full Time

Entry Level

33/hr+

4 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

With the growth of smart phones, tablets and new operating systems requiring constant updates daily, quality products are more critical than ever before. Cognizant's Quality Engineering & Assurance (QEA) practice partners with you to bolster development initiatives, providing reliable support across a range of hardware and software, testing infrastructure, and testing products that ensure automated test coverage and drive product quality. As an Entry-Level Quality Engineer, you will become part of our U.S. based QEA practice, which provides a full range of QEA services to our U.S. clients across multiple industry sectors, including automation test development, agile QE, DevOps engineering, performance testing, manual testing, test design, and test consulting.

Key Responsibilities

Know your customer: understand processes and how the software being tested impacts the client's business
Identify right bugs to fix and reject the ones that would put client's end customers at risk
Map processes to your testing methodology
Work with Analysts, Developers, and PM teams to identify what needs to be tested in existing or new features of the software product
Understand QA process for software development, debugging and release
Objectively review and qualify objective data
Become a 'future focused' quality assurance (QA) leader by developing a good understanding of rising trends in the QA industry (QE, DevOps, Agile QA & Digital) and applying these technologies to your client's QA environment
Gain knowledge of the architecture - code structure, underlying database, and interactions with other software
Find new and innovative ways of breaking the software using automated and manual tests
Learn new tools/technologies to automate tests, such as Selenium, Tosca, Cucumber Java, and Python

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with preferred majors: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems
Understanding fundamentals of software development process and importance of quality management and processes
Hands on demonstrable development experience in Selenium, Python, JAVA, .NET (C#), C++, or equivalent programming languages
Actively participate in developing complex applications involving innovative technology and frameworks
Self-motivated individuals with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the passion and appetite to learn newer technologies
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work collaboratively with global project teams

Nice to Have

Knowledge of rising trends in QA industry such as QE, DevOps, Agile QA & Digital
Experience with test automation tools like Selenium, Tosca, Cucumber Java, and Python
Experience in software debugging and release processes

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems

Benefits & Perks

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Working at Cognizant

The Cognizant community is a high-caliber team that appreciates and supports one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that's right for you. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what's right.

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