Cognizant

Senior Healthcare Payer Claims QA Engineer

Cognizant
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2 days ago
Norfolk, VA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$96k - $110k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Analyze healthcare claims requirements, user stories, and business rules to create test scenarios and test cases.
  • Execute functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing across healthcare payer claims-processing workflows.
  • Validate pre-adjudication logic, business validations, claim edits, rejects, pend processing, and downstream claim outcomes.
  • Test EDI/X12 healthcare claims transactions, particularly 837P and 837I transactions and related interfaces.
  • Perform SQL and database validation, data analysis, reconciliation, and test-data preparation.
  • Conduct API and integration testing between upstream and downstream applications.
  • Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, and drive issues through resolution and closure.
  • Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium, Playwright, or similar frameworks, including AI-assisted testing where applicable.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of software testing experience in healthcare payer claims-processing environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience testing healthcare payer claims applications and workflows.
  • Strong understanding of the end-to-end healthcare claims lifecycle, including pre-adjudication, validations, edits, rejects, pend processing, and downstream outcomes.
  • Hands-on experience testing EDI/X12 healthcare claims transactions, particularly 837P and 837I.
  • Strong SQL and database-testing skills, including backend validation, reconciliation, and test-data preparation.
  • Experience with functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing for complex claims-processing workflows.
  • Knowledge of PEGA-based healthcare solutions is preferred.
  • Experience with API and integration testing, Selenium, Playwright, similar automation frameworks, or AI-powered testing tools is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States, subject to business, project, and client requirements.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • 401(k) plan and contributions.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.

Tech Stack

SeleniumSQL

Categories

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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