Sr. Test Analyst

About the Role

Cognizant is seeking a Sr. Test Analyst to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on validating complex web services and application programming interfaces (APIs) for enterprise billing and revenue management systems. The position involves designing, executing, and automating test scenarios for REST and SOAP-based services, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with development and analysis teams to deliver high-quality releases for global customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive test strategies and test cases for web services testing using Structured Query Language (SQL) and industry tools to ensure complete validation of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Execute thorough API testing for REST and SOAP-based services to verify request-response flows, data accuracy, and integration consistency across systems.
• Create detailed test data sets using SQL queries to validate complex business rules, transformations, and billing scenarios while maintaining data quality standards.
• Utilize Postman to design, automate, and execute collections for regression and smoke testing of critical APIs, improving test repeatability and reducing execution effort.
• Apply SoapUI to model service contracts, create reusable test suites, and validate responses for SOAP-based services, ensuring alignment with interface specifications.
• Perform end-to-end validation of billing and revenue management workflows by combining user interface tests, SQL-based data checks, and API validations.
• Document clear, reproducible defects with detailed steps, logs, payloads, and SQL evidence to support efficient triage and timely resolution.
• Collaborate with developers, product analysts, and operations partners in an office environment to clarify requirements, review interface designs, and align test coverage with business outcomes.
• Analyze test execution results to identify trends, recurring defects, and coverage gaps, proposing improvements in services, data validations, or test design.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of test processes by refining templates, enhancing test data management, and promoting better use of testing tools across the team.
• Support production readiness by participating in release validations, performing sanity checks on key billing and revenue management flows, and confirming deployed services behave as expected.
• Maintain clear traceability between requirements, test cases, and execution results to provide transparent quality status for stakeholders and support audit or compliance needs.
• Share knowledge on web services testing practices and tools with peers to foster a stronger quality culture.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in software testing.
• Understanding of core concepts of software testing, including test design techniques, defect lifecycle, risk-based testing, and regression optimization for service-oriented systems.
• Strong proficiency with API testing using Postman, including collection design, environment configuration, parameterization, and validation scripts.
• Advanced SQL skills to join tables, validate business rules, verify data integrity, and troubleshoot discrepancies across billing and transactional data sets.
• Effective use of SoapUI to create functional, regression, and data-driven test suites for SOAP services, including assertions on response structures, status codes, and business fields.
• Ability to interpret and test REST service specifications, including endpoints, methods, request payloads, response formats, and error handling.
• Prior experience in billing and revenue management domains is beneficial for designing realistic scenarios and validating financial accuracy.

Required Skills

• Clear communication with cross-functional teams in an office setting, including documenting scenarios, providing status updates, and explaining issues concisely.
• Adaptability to changing priorities and new service integrations in an agile environment while maintaining disciplined test planning, execution, and evidence collection practices.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, requiring work from the office.