Job Description: QA Automation Engineer Service Virtualization (5+ Years)
Location: Remote
Shift Timing: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM IST
Experience: 5+ Years
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Service Virtualization, API mocking, and integrated test environment simulation. The ideal candidate will design, build, and optimize virtualization assets that support robust functional, integration, and end-to-end testing across complex distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
1. Design & Develop Service Virtualization Assets
- Build and configure stubs, mocks, and virtual services for APIs, web services, MQ, Kafka, and file-based integrations.
- Create virtualized batch job triggers and file-drop simulations for ETL and data pipelines.
- Develop real-time API virtualization for REST, SOAP, JMS, MQ, Kafka, and other messaging interfaces.
2. Integration Support
- Work closely with integration, development, and QA teams to identify virtualization opportunities and eliminate test environment dependencies.
- Analyze interface specifications, schemas, and data contracts (WSDL, XSD, Swagger/OpenAPI).
- Simulate positive, negative, error, and boundary conditions using data-driven virtual responses.
3. Tooling & Automation
- Implement virtualization using tools such as:
- Broadcom DevTest (CA Lisa), Parasoft Virtualize, Micro Focus SV, WireMock, MockServer, Hoverfly, or Mountebank.
- Automate stub deployment and lifecycle management via CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Maintain version-controlled virtualization assets using Git or related repositories.
4. Performance & Data Simulation
- Configure simulations for latency, throttling, performance loads, and error injection.
- Build data-driven virtual services integrated with Test Data Management (TDM) solutions.
5. Documentation & Governance
- Maintain a central virtual service catalog, ensuring traceability, reusability, and standardization.
- Define best practices, guidelines, and reusable frameworks for service virtualization across teams.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years in Service Virtualization, API mocking, integration simulation, or similar roles.
- Strong understanding of real-time (REST, SOAP, MQ, Kafka) and batch (ETL, file-based) integration patterns.
- Experience with one or more tools:
- Broadcom CA Lisa / DevTest
- Parasoft Virtualize
- Micro Focus Service Virtualization
- WireMock, MockServer, Hoverfly, or Mountebank
- Hands-on expertise with:
- REST, SOAP, XML, JSON
- JMS, MQ, Kafka
- FTP/SFTP, File-based integrations
- Scripting skills in Groovy, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and Git-based version control.
- Familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Strong analytical skills, communication, and team collaboration abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to Test Data Management (TDM) or data virtualization tools.
- Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments.
- Domain experience: Banking, Insurance, Telecom.
- Certification in Service Virtualization or API Testing tools.
Key Deliverables
- Fully functional and reusable virtual services and stubs for identified integrations.
- Documentation and reusability framework for virtualization assets.
- Automated CI/CD-based deployment of virtual services across environments.
- Direct contribution to environment stability, faster testing cycles, and improved release velocity.
