# Software Test Automation Lead

About the Role Software Test Automation Lead (MES) About the Role Lead the testing and validation function for MES implementations, upgrades, and integration programs in a regulated manufacturing environment, driving both team performance and technical testing strategy. Responsibilities Own and evolve the overall testing strategy across MES implementation, upgrade, and integration projects, ensuring end-to-end coverage from planning through execution. Serve as the release quality gate for MES changes, confirming that regulatory, functional, and performance criteria are satisfied before anything reaches production. Guide Computer System Validation (CSV) activities, ensuring all testing aligns with GxP, GAMP 5, and regulated software lifecycle expectations. Build and maintain the full suite of test documentation - plans, cases, and scripts - spanning functional, regression, integration, performance, automation, and UAT testing. Work with manufacturing process owners, business stakeholders, and validation teams to make sure test scenarios genuinely reflect how operations run on the floor. Own defect management end-to-end: triage, prioritisation, root cause analysis, and resolution tra

- **Id**: 3870035
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-software-test-automation-lead>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cork, Ireland
- **Countries**: IE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T05:53:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:23:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2972
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 186
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.473
- **Repost share**: 0.059
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cucumber** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **LIMS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T13:59:02Z

## Visa

- Country: IE; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Irish employment permits in 12 months: 99; Filings 12m: 99

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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