Responsibilities :

1. Lead end-to-end quality engineering for REST APIs, from requirements analysis to production validation for 5-9 years scale projects. Design, implement, and maintain robust API test strategies covering functional, integration, contract, regression, and negative testing. Drive API test automation frameworks and suites, ensuring high coverage, reliability, and maintainability across services and microservices. Collaborate with architects and developers to review API specifications (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI), ensuring testability, consistency, and adherence to standards. Define and enforce best practices for API testing, automation, and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines. Analyze complex defects and production issues, perform root cause analysis, and work with cross-functional teams to implement long-term fixes. Mentor and guide junior QA/automation engineers on API testing techniques, tools, and automation patterns. Establish and track quality metrics (defect trends, coverage, stability, performance signals) to continuously improve product quality and team processes. Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements, clarify acceptance criteria, and ensure test scenarios reflect real-world usage. Ensure proper test data management and environment readiness for API testing across different stages (dev, QA, staging, UAT).

Additional Responsibilities:

Preferred Qualifications: 1. Extensive experience in API test automation, including building and maintaining automation suites for REST APIs. Demonstrated ability to define test strategies, test plans, and quality processes for complex, distributed systems. Experience integrating automated API tests into CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile/Scrum environments. Strong background in overall Testing practices, including test design techniques, risk-based testing, and regression optimization. Proven track record of leading small to medium QA/automation teams, providing technical guidance and code reviews for test assets. Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize defects, manage releases, and ensure smooth production rollouts. Ability to analyze logs, traces, and API responses to quickly diagnose issues and support root cause analysis. Exposure to performance, reliability, or security validation of APIs, working alongside specialized teams where needed.

Technical and Professional Requirements:

1. Bachelor of Engineering (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 5-9 years of hands-on experience in REST API and API Testing in enterprise or product-based environments. Strong expertise in designing and executing API test cases, including functional, integration, and regression testing for RESTful services. Proven experience in leading or owning quality for API-centric projects, working closely with development and product teams. Solid understanding of HTTP, REST principles, request/response structures, status codes, and common authentication mechanisms API design review, Contract testing, Performance testing, CI/CD integration, Agile methodologies - Good to have skills

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