GenAI Test Automation Lead

About the role

As a GenAI Test Automation Lead, you will lead the quality engineering strategy for AI-driven platforms and business-critical applications, ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, development teams, product owners, and offshore QA teams to establish testing standards, drive automation adoption, and validate the performance and reliability of AI-enabled systems. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered quality engineering while leading the testing strategy for innovative solutions within the Property & Casualty insurance domain.

Responsibilities

• Design testing strategy for Gen AI Bots
• Testing of End user UI application
• Identify automation scope, coverage, and tool/framework selection
• Coordinate with offshore QA leads and teams on Test execution, Defect management, Automation development
• Track test progress, coverage, and execution results and report to stakeholders
• Review and sign off on deliverables; Ensure adherence to QA standards, processes, and compliance
• Provide daily/weekly dashboards and executive summaries
• Use metrics for decision-making and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 10–15 years in QA, with 5+ years in automation
• Core skills: Selenium/Playwright, API testing, CI/CD, frameworks
• Strong testing skills including test plan, test strategy, and defect management processes
• Good understanding of Property and Casualty domain, including claims processing
• UI testing and integration testing expertise
• Experience with Oracle and PL/SQL databases
• Experience testing automation through Robot Framework with Playwright for UI applications
• Experience in test framework creation and maintenance
• Expertise in GenAI agent development
• Experience in GenAI implementation and adoption in the testing lifecycle, specifically GitHub Copilot enablement
• Experience testing AI models and AI bots
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Benefits

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

Pay

The annual salary for this position is between $70,000 and $112,500, depending on experience and other qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.