{"id":2130245,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing","title":"Senior Test Manager - AI Testing","company":{"id":85,"name":"Cognizant","domain":"cognizant.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cognizant","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Cognizant Careers","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":164,"ghost_share":0.012,"stale_share":0.506,"repost_share":0.037,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Toronto, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":110000,"max":141000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":99005},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Rest-Assured","optional":false},{"name":"Selenium","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T22:40:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-09","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T22:45:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":24,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":24},"description":"We are seeking a Senior Test Manager to lead large-scale enterprise quality engineering and digital transformation initiatives. In this role, you will bridge the gap between technical execution and business strategy, driving our next-generation quality engineering roadmap with a heavy emphasis on Test Automation, DevOps, and Generative/Agentic AI across complex insurance and retirement systems.\nIn this role, you will\nDefining program scope and objectives: Setting clear goals, timelines, and deliverables that align with business objectives.\nManaging cross-team dependencies: Coordinating with various teams to ensure seamless integration and collaboration.\nIdentifying and mitigating technical risks: Developing strategies to address potential risks and issues.\nStakeholder management: Collaborating with engineering, product, and leadership teams to align goals and resolve conflicts.\nRisk management: Proactively identifying, assessing, and managing risks, issues, and dependencies.\nCommunication: Delivering clear updates to technical and non-technical audiences across all levels.\nLeadership: Building strong relationships with stakeholders across engineering, product, design, marketing, legal, and other business units.\nWork model\nWe 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 Toronto or Kitchener location. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.\nNote: 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.\nKey Skills: Test Automation Architecture | GenAI & LLMs | GitHub Copilot | CI/CD & DevOps | Quality Analytics | Strong communication, presentation skills | Stakeholder Management\nWhat you need to have to be considered\nMinimum 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering (QE), Test Architecture, and Test Automation, with a proven track record of leading large-scale enterprise testing transformations and quality assurance programs.\nStrong knowledge of modern QE practices, including shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, DevOps, test observability, quality metrics, and AI-assisted software delivery.\nProven ability to define and execute Quality Engineering strategies, automation roadmaps, governance models, and best practices, while leading globally distributed teams and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, release velocity, and cost efficiency.\nDemonstrated success in driving end-to-end program delivery, including non-production environment management, test data management, UAT coordination, production readiness validation, deployment support, and post-production verification for strategic enterprise initiatives.\nStrong knowledge of modern QE practices, including shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, DevOps, test observability, quality metrics, and AI-assisted software delivery.\nHands-on expertise in Generative AI and Agentic AI, including Prompt Engineering, RAG, AI-powered test automation, and leveraging AI for intelligent test design, execution optimization, root cause analysis, and defect prediction.\nTechnical proficiency inJava, Selenium, Playwright, API Automation, and implementation of scalable, reusable, and AI-enabled test automation frameworks.\nUnderstanding of LLM ecosystems and AI platforms, including Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude, and related AI orchestration frameworks.\nThese will help you stand out\nDomain expertise in Life Insurance / Annuity is highly preferred, with experience supporting policy administration, claims, underwriting, billing, and digital transformation initiatives being an added advantage.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.\nTotal compensation\nWe regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between CAD 110,000 - 141,000 per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4881,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Science & Engineering","Engineering Services","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T00:54:33Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":32,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.581,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":23,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":99005,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T01:41:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2305,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":85},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=85"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcognizant-senior-test-manager-ai-testing"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2130245}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cognizant.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2130245},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}