Automation Engineer Associate Analyst
Cigna — Bengaluru, Karnataka
₹4–10 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 0–1 yrs exp · Freshers eligible · Full-time · hybrid · Apply by 30 Oct 2026
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Quick answer: An entry-level QA automation seat on Cigna's international team: Selenium with Cucumber, Java scripting, and hybrid work in Bengaluru inside a SAFe Agile scrum team. The 0 to 1 year figures are the ones that decide who gets through, not the longer experience line above them.
From Cigna's job posting
Automation Engineer Associate Analyst [Selenium Automation]
Band 2
The Position
Reporting to the QE Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring on quality and on time delivery of test planning and executions activities in the delivery of Quality Assurance (QA) Testing for new or modified applications/systems across multiple platforms. The Automation Engineer Associate Analyst will be a high-performing individual who is methodical, inquisitive and has a passion for quality. They will partner with their Scrum Team and business colleagues on a journey of continuous learning and improvement to ensure ongoing optimisation of our test automation capability in support of key strategic outcomes for our business.
Working across our IM IT Team to deliver successful QE – Test Automation solutions enabling all methodologies with a focus on SAFe Agile. You will work with individuals from across the world, with both in-person and remote teams.
Main Duties / Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering the QE Automation roadmap for each team
- Build & maintain the automation for critical & complex business applications
- Product understanding and creating test automation for In-sprint & regression testing
- Execute automation scripts and report bugs
- Determine priority for test cases and create effective execution plans with maximum coverage
- Participate in PI & Sprint planning and Agile ceremonies
- Track & report automation progress as per the plan
- Develop skills in new automation tools to improve the automation penetration
- Contribute towards implementation of new ideas & solutions
- Mentor & develop junior resources
- Adheres to the organization's Quality Engineering best practices and help to drive changes to achieve more efficiency
- Identify & Support Automation and DevOps opportunities; looking at efficiencies in ‘In Sprint’ Automation as well as Regression as we develop our CI/CD pipelines
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least two, typically five or more years’ experience in a system quality environment, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 0 - 1 Yrs. experience in QE - Test Automation
- 0 – 1 Yrs. experience in Selenium with Cucumber automation tool
- Knowledge/ Experience in automation of web-based applications and API’s
- Knowledge/ Experience in Java scripting to develop automation scripts
- Knowledge/ Experience of developing custom automation solutions & functions
- Knowledge/ Experience of doing deep failure analysis to address automation failures
- Good Knowledge of working in all phases of Test Cycle (Test Design, Test Execution, Defect management & reporting)
- Knowledge of the Software Delivery Lifecycle with specific expertise of Software Testing
- Broad knowledge of automated testing and modelling tools
- Good knowledge of different web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, MS Edge, Chrome
- Competent user of Microsoft office applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Comfortable working independently or as part of a team.
- Demonstrate accuracy and possess a keen eye for detail
- Strong interest in personal development
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Knowledge/ Experience in web automation using other automation tools & frameworks
- Codeless automation tools Knowledge
- Knowledge/ Experience in automating desktop & mainframe applications
- Knowledge/ Experience in implementation of CICD pipeline using Jenkins/Azure DevOps
- Knowledge experience on mainframe applications
- Knowledge in testing Salesforce & Vlocity applications
- Experience in Python or C# coding
The employer’s company overview, benefits and equal-opportunity statement are left out here; they are on the original posting.
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HireSetu's note
A fresher role with a senior line in it
The requirements block contradicts itself. It asks for a bachelor's degree and then a figure of two or more years in a system quality environment, before stating 0 to 1 years in QE test automation and 0 to 1 years in Selenium with Cucumber. For a Band 2 associate analyst, the 0 to 1 lines are the real gate and the longer figure reads like text carried over from a senior posting.
Mentoring junior resources also sits in the duties, which is a lot to hand someone in their first year. Settle both points on the first call, because the answer decides whether this is a learning seat or one with immediate ownership of an automation roadmap.
The Cucumber half carries as much weight as Selenium
Many freshers can drive a browser with Selenium and click through a flow. Here the tests are written in Cucumber, so the day is spent on feature files in Gherkin, step definitions wired into Java, and keeping those steps readable as the suite grows. The listing also puts API automation next to the web work, so be able to send a request and check a response, not just locate a button.
A small project on GitHub, a Cucumber suite running against a public site with clean step definitions, tells an interviewer more than a course certificate.
Hybrid in Bengaluru, colleagues everywhere else
The role is hybrid in Bengaluru, and the posting says you'll work with in-person and remote teams across the world, so some calls will land outside normal hours. Ask which days the team sits together, since that shapes your week more than the hybrid label does.
The systems are health services applications, the kind where changes are reviewed and test evidence is kept. Building clear records of each run, defect and retest is part of the work itself. The automation skills travel well to other employers; the insurance and pharmacy domain knowledge you pick up here does not, which is fine for a first or second job.
Drafted with AI from Cigna's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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