About Evernorth: Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits solutions to improve health and increase vitality.

We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people.

Summary: This role will work with manual QA testers and setup the automation framework, building new test frameworks, writing and designing automation scripts from scratch and maintaining automated test scripts to ensure quality control standards are achieved.

We need an QA Automation Engineer who is successful in growing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions to maximize testing coverage and reduce test cycle time.

This will require cross coordination between multiple teams.

This role will also provide direction for implementing best practices to determine optimum solutions.

Duties: Responsible for architecting, designing and implementing test automation frameworks from ground up into a continuous integration and execution model Evaluate existing automation framework and provide automation solution for building end to end regression suite Develop, execute and maintain automation test scripts to meet software release deliverables, project testing requirements and other quality considerations Define test data conditions and partners and works closely with Data team to obtain the data.

Actively engage in defect reporting and triaging Responsible for creating data portability functions.

Create data necessary for the scripts based on the functionality Responsible for developing smoke, functional and regression test suites for GUI Front End, and Database backend Document, maintain, and monitor software problems Recommend strategies and methods to improve test plans and test processes Maintain well organized records of test results and generate historical analysis of test results As a member of the scrum team, closely interact with both onsite and offshore team members.

The onsite and offshore interactions include scrum team members (Scrum masters, developers, Product Owners and QA at onsite and offshore) Skills Required: Minimum of 4 Years of Automation experience required Preferably 5 years in IT API Automation testing Data validation experience with strong SQL knowledge required (knowledge of joins, table relationships, and subqueries) Experience in testing web application and web services developed using latest technologies and frameworks required: DOTNET C#, Rest Assured, JSON, etc.

Experience building new (from scratch) QA automation framework is a plus Hands-on experience with a mix of modern Test Automation tools and frame works Experience in CI/CD process required Prefer experience using UI testing frameworks - Selenium Knowledge of cloud technologies (Azure preferred) Must have broad knowledge experience with testing and modeling tools, and change management and test case generation techniques.

Solid understanding of Quality Assurance methods and practices Deep understanding of manual and automated testing concepts Solid understanding of STLC (Software Test Life Cycle) Solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Strong Object Oriented Programming Skills Well-developed problem solving and analytical skills Excellent interpersonal communication skills Education: Bachelors Degree in related field required Masters Degree in related field a plus