**We’re hiring!** At Cognizant we have an ideal opportunity for you to be part of one of the largest companies in the digital sector worldwide. A Phenomenal Place to Work where we look for people who give new insights, experiencing a dynamic and growing environment. At Cognizant, we promote an inclusive culture that values different perspectives providing career growth and development opportunities. **\#WelcomeToCognizant!** **Job Summary** **Description:** In this role, you will lead the test strategy, planning and activities of multiple application or releases for the data warehouse environment throughout its software development lifecycle, covering Functional, Non-Functional, Regression, and Automation Testing across System and System Integration Test level. The candidate will coordinate testing with team members who may be in multiple countries and work to ensure alignment across project stakeholders (for example, scrum masters, project managers, test team leadership, etc.). **Role & Responsibilities:** • Recommendation of staffing plans and estimation of costs • Test management, communication, metrics, and status reporting, including identification of risks and escalation of issues to the project team or ZNA retained IT test lead / project managers • Driving development of test strategies and test plans with input from test team members, including vendor-based resources, and executing test execution • Onshore and Offshore resource coordination and collaboration • Defect Management approach and execution, including logging and reporting of defects and adherence to Defect Management by all project / scrum team members (including those outside of test team) • Remove impediments faced by project team members, utilizing agile methodology tools where applicable (e.g., scrum of scrum, retrospectives, etc.) • Recommend scope of work for automation testing and ensure plans are in place to implement and execute automation test scripts while coordinating with Test Automation strategy leaders • As needed, perform requirements analysis, author functional test cases, and execute test cases while understanding the testable software requirements • Developing, maintaining, and excecuting SQL queries to test movement of data across source and target systems • Validation of data across source and target systems using ETL tools and framework **Required Experience:** • Four + years of experience in Functional testing in data warehousing environments (creating test plans/test cases/test data strategy) • Four + years of experience with project and test management tools (e.g., Jira, Application Management Lifecycle (ALM), Azure DevOps, PICT, etc.) • Three + years of experience in Extract, Transformation, and Load (ETL) testing, including data validation across source and target systems • Three + years of experience with database testing / data wareshouse testing, including data comparison and validation using SQL queries • Three + years of experience with agile project delivery methodology (i.e., scrum) • Experience leading test automation strategy within projects • Experience in the financial services industry (e.g., insurance, banking, investing, credit card processing, etc.) **Preferred Experience:** • Experience in the P&C insurance industry • Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., ADAPT, Robot, SpecFlow) • Experience with ETL / data automation tools, including scripting (e.g., Python, Java) **Required Skills:** • Native-level proficiency with the English language • Effective communications • Problem solving • Quality management • Application testing • Leadership • Strategy • Coaching • SQL queries (authoring, excecuting) • ETL platforms (e.g., Informatica) • Data governance **Preferred Skills:** • Business acumen • Analytical thinking • IT vendor / services management • CI/CD and DevOps **Why Cognizant?** Improve your career in one of the largest and fastest-growing IT services providers worldwide Receive ongoing support and funding with training and development plans Have a highly competitive benefits and salary package Get the opportunity to work for leading global companies We are committed to respecting human rights and building a better future by helping your minds and the environment We invest in people and their well-being. We build conditions for everyone to thrive. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered. At Cognizant we believe that our culture makes us stronger! Join us now! \#BeCognizant #IntuitionEngineered **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. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com (https://www.cognizant.com/us/en) **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._ 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.