API testing

Job Description:

• About the Job
• You will be leading the quality engineering efforts for complex large scale API ecosystems ensuring that every service we ship is reliable secure and performs at scale
• In this role you will guide teams on best practices in REST API design and testing champion automation and help shape a culture where quality is everyone s responsibility
• You ll collaborate closely with architects developers product managers and DevOps engineers to build robust test strategies that keep pace with modern cloud native delivery
• This is an opportunity to influence technical direction mentor engineers and introduce smarter ways of working using automation metrics and continuous improvement
• If you enjoy solving intricate integration challenges designing scalable API test frameworks and leading teams toward engineering excellence this role gives you the platform to make a visible impact while growing as a technology leader

Key Responsibilities:

• 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
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• 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

Technical Requirements:

• 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
• Ability to analyze logs traces and API responses to quickly diagnose issues and support root cause analysis

Additional Responsibilities:

• Good to Have Skills
• API design review Contract testing Performance testing CI CD integration Agile methodologies
• Preferred location Bangalore Hyderabad Pune and Chennai

Preferred Skills: