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Entry-level Quality Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
College Station, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/13/2025

Entry-level Quality Engineer

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 two cohorts; February or April 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.

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