Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues globally, you will collaborate on crafting solutions for prestigious companies and help them become more flexible, innovative, and successful. And this is your chance to join the success story: we are looking for a CI/CD Performance tester to join our Quality Assurance and Engineering practice.


About Cognizant Latvia and QA&E practice:
Cognizant Latvia focuses on delivering application development and application maintenance services to support its clients in becoming more digital. Riga Delivery Center with its dedicated, multilingual IT and telecom specialists is providing maintenance and support, cross-functional agile teams, and the capability to manage complex, large-scale transformation projects together with multi-country implementation and integration, making the center something of a one-stop-shop for businesses and IT competence.

Currently, in the practice, we are a team of ~ 30 people and we continue to grow and increase our QA knowledge and use modern automation and testing practices to give the best results to our clients. We work with multiple solutions and clients with the possibility to work with different tools, programming languages, and roles. Expanding our knowledge and giving clients not only the expected result but investing in giving automation and innovative solutions is our long-term goal.

More information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/services/enterprise-quality-engineering-assurance

About the role:

We are looking for a CI/CD Performance Tester for our largest banking clients in the Nordics to be able to set up performance testing tools/agents/load generators/monitoring tools etc. in a CI/CD pipeline and maintain the performance testing jobs across various test environments. The candidate needs to have hands-on experience with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, JMeter, K6), Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Appdynamics, Grafana), and their integrations into CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions. They should also possess scripting skills to create reusable assets (For example - Plugin creation for scripting, extracting test reports from the pipeline, etc.)

Our ideal candidate:
• Minimum 3 years experience in CI/CD pipeline setup & maintenance
• Able to develop, enable & maintain performance testing in the pipeline
• Manage performance test tool enablement & CLI Integration
• Manage physical devices to be used for performance testing
• Experience in setting up automated performance test framework
• Technology Skills
• Experience working with industry-standard pipeline tools like Jenkins/Azure DevOps/ GitHub Actions
• Performance Test Tool Integration in pipeline (LoadRunner, JMeter, K6)
• Performance Monitoring Integration in the pipeline (Grafana, Dynatrace)
• Automated Script Development for Test & Report Extraction
• CI/CD Job Maintenance & Execution Status Reporting
• Create reusable assets for performance test execution on the pipeline
• Soft Skills are a MUST HAVE (Good Communication Skills, Understand Business Requirements, Coordinate between various platforms, data, coe & agile teams, Agile WoW, Documentation Skills, Quick Learner)

What you can expect:

The competitive compensation package consists of a base salary of 2200 3200 EUR gross/ monthly.
Please note that the offer for the final candidate will depend on the experience and competencies of the candidate for the required job.
• An annual bonus, and monetary recognition.
Benefits package that encourages healthy living, well-being, and desire to learn and grow:
• from the first working day available Life insurance and Health insurance plan which also include dentistry, pharmacy coverage, various sports;
• compensation of optical glasses or contact lenses up to 180 EUR;
• accessing a smartphone and mobile subscription, as well as free car parking or bike shelter;
• individual life coaching and mindfulness sessions;
• flexible working hours, and the ability to work from home;
• various learning platforms with over 50,000 self-paced courses, books, and other training resources;
• self-realization opportunities through outreach, committees, and communities.
Cognizant as a digital company, makes employee health and safety its top priority. With that in mind, we are implementing virtual hiring and work practices which means interviews will be conducted online.

Application process: 

• CV submission
• Screening call
• Technical+HM interview
• Client interview if applicable

Stay up to date with our website https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.