API Test Engineer

API Automation Test Engineer

Experience: 6-10yrs

Location : Bangalore/ Chennai / Hyderabad / Pune / Gurgaon / Kolkata

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled API Automation Test Engineer to design, develop, and maintain API automation frameworks for RESTful services. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Playwright-based API automation, deep understanding of HTTP/REST architecture, and solid experience in JavaScript/TypeScript-based framework development, Performance testing, Jmeter testing. This role requires ownership of automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with development and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality software delivery

Key Responsibilities

1. API Test Automation (Primary Focus)

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for REST API
• Implement reusable utilities for request building, response validation, authentication handling, and schema validation
• Develop automated tests for:

Negative scenarios

Boundary and edge cases

Authentication & authorization flows (OAuth/JWT)

• Validate API contracts, status codes, headers, payload structures, and response time.

2. Programming & Backend Understanding

• Strong coding skills in JavaScript / TypeScript
• .Experience working with backend frameworks such as:
• Node.js & NestJS (Good to have)

Ability to:

• Debug API issues at application layer
• Read backend logs
• Understand middleware, interceptors, and request lifecycle

3. Test Framework Design & Engineering

• Architect modular and scalable automation frameworks.

Implement:

• Environment configuration management
• Data-driven testing
• Parallel execution
• Reporting & logging mechanisms
• Maintain code quality using best practices:
• Clean code principles
• Reusable components
• Version control discipline

4. Functional Testing Capability

• Analyze business requirements and technical specifications.

Perform:

• API functional validation
• Integration testing
• Regression testing

5. CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using:
• Git workflows
• GitHub Actions
• AWS-based pipelines (Good to have)

Ensure:

• Automated test execution on PR/Merge
• Test reporting in pipeline
• Quality gate enforcement

6. Cloud & Deployment Awareness (Good to Have)

Basic understanding of AWS services such as:

• Amazon EKSAWS Application Load Balancer
• Amazon CloudWatch

Ability to:

• Validate APIs deployed in containerized environments
• Analyze logs and monitor failures in cloud environments

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years in QA background.
• Atleast 4+ years in API automation testing
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Playwright API automation
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Exposure to microservices architecture.