Job Description:
- 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
- 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
Technical Requirements:
- 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
Additional Responsibilities:
- Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Skills:
Technology->Agile Testing->Agile Testing - ALL->CD/CI,Technology->API Testing->RestAssured,Technology->Automated Testing->Playwright Javascript,Technology->Automated Testing->Playwright Typescript
