Entry-level Quality Engineer

Cognizant • Saint Louis, MO • 9h ago

Position Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Business Focus:

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

Quality Focus:

Work with Analysts, Developers, and PM teams to identify what needs to be tested in existing or new features of the software product

Understanding of QA process for software development, debugging and release

Ability to objectively review and qualify objective data

Technology Focus:

Become a 'future focused' quality assurance (QA) leader: develop a good understanding of rising trends in the QA industry (QE, DevOps, Agile QA & Digital) and apply 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

Qualifications

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

Location(s)

New hires will be deployed to specific client sites and those locations will be discussed through the application process. While Cognizant will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your location preference, please note that final assignments will be based on business needs and regional relocation may be required.

Start Date(s)

Quality Engineers will start in three cohorts; January, April or June 2025. If your offer is for January, we will communicate your exact start date at the time of offer. While we will attempt to honor candidate summer start date preferences, business need and position availability will determine final start date assignment of June or August. Exact summer start dates will be communicated with enough time for you to plan effectively.

Why Choose Us?

Cognizant delivers solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of our associates. You will be supported by high-caliber experts and employ some of the most advanced and patented capabilities. Our associate's diverse set of backgrounds offer multifaceted perspectives and fuel new ways of thinking. We encourage lively discussions which inspire better results for our clients.

Hourly Rate and Other Compensation

The hourly rate for this position is $33.65 per hour, depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

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

Disclaimer

The hourly rate, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Work Authorization

Due to the nature of this position, Cognizant cannot provide sponsorship for U.S. work authorization (including participation in a CPT/OPT program) for this role.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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