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Role 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 Canada based QEA practice, which provides a full range of QEA services to our Canadian clients across multiple industry sectors, including automation test development, agile QE, DevOps engineering, performance testing, manual testing, test design, and test consulting.

What you’ll do
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

What you bring to the role

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 Automation – Java, Cucumber and API skills – 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 Working arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Halifax, NS or Toronto, ON Canada. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

Start Date(s)
Quality Engineers will start in February or April 2025. While we will attempt to honor candidate start date preferences, business need and position availability will determine final start date. Exact start dates will be communicated with enough time for you to plan effectively.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer: 
Compensation 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.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.