Senior QA Automation Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

We’re looking for a senior-level automation engineer who will help raise the bar on release quality, environment reliability, and change safety across Cohere’s platform. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and SRE to build scalable automation, guardrails, and validation systems that reduce production risk while increasing delivery velocity.

This is not a “test scripts only” role. You’ll shape automation strategy, embed quality into the SDLC, and help define how changes move safely from dev → staging → UAT → prod in a fast-moving healthcare platform.

You’ll help define how quality scales as Cohere grows. This role has real influence over release safety, platform reliability, and how engineering teams ship software in a regulated, high-impact domain. You won’t just test features — you’ll shape how Cohere delivers them safely to production.

What you’ll do:

• Own and evolve Cohere’s end-to-end test automation strategy across UI, API, config changes, and critical workflows

• Design and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for multi-tenant, payer-specific workflows

• Build automated validation for deployment guardrails, release readiness, and production change safety

• Partner with Platform/DevOps to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows

• Create automated coverage for high-risk paths (authorization flows, partner integrations, file pipelines, feature flags, config changes)

• Drive test reliability, flake reduction, and actionable failure signals

• Define and enforce quality gates for prod releases, blue/green and canary deployments, and config changes

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure business outcomes are testable, measurable, and observable

• Improve test data management and environment stability to enable reliable automation at scale

• Mentor engineers on testability, automation best practices, and quality-first development

• Partner with SRE and Security to ensure production readiness, observability, and compliance expectations are met

• Apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate test creation and expand coverage for high-risk user flows, integrations, and configuration-driven behavior

• Use AI to analyze automation failures and production incidents to reduce flaky tests and prioritize new test coverage around real failure patterns

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years in QA Automation, SDET, or test engineering roles supporting production systems

• Strong hands-on experience building automation frameworks for UI and API testing from the ground up, and setting up repeatable datasets

• Deep experience with modern E2E frameworks (Playwright or Cypress) using TypeScript

• Strong API automation experience (REST-based testing frameworks)

• Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar)

• Experience validating cloud-native systems on AWS

• Comfortable working in microservices and event-driven architectures

• Experience testing configuration-driven systems, feature flags, and environment-specific behavior

• Strong debugging skills across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers

• Proven ability to partner with platform / infra teams on release pipelines and deployment safety

Nice-to-haves

• Performance and reliability testing experience (e.g., k6 or similar)

• Healthcare or regulated domain experience

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana*: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

• Connect with Talent Acquisition

• Meet with the Hiring Manager

• Behavioral Interview(s)

• Case Study

• Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.