API Automation Engineer

About the Company

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Job Title – Senior API automation engineer

Required Skills

• 3-5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer with experience in Contract Testing frameworks (e.g., Pact)
• Experience in API tools/framework (SoapUI, HttpClient, Postman)
• Experience working with JSON and XML
• Experience in writing automating tests using java
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience in testing complex applications that include integrations with different 3rd parties (APIs, etc).
• Strong knowledge of object oriented programming, along with requisite coding and debugging skills
• A firm grasp of software design principles, patterns, algorithms, data structures and multi threading concepts
• Experience using version control (Git), defect tracking systems (JIRA)
• Experience with BDD automation frameworks (Cucumber)
• Knowledge about any relational database (Mysql, Oracle etc) and should be able to frame and execute queries
• Experience working within a Microservice environment
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test integration
• Understands how multi Tier Architecture application works and how to perform api testing in such environment
• A passion for quality assurance
• Drive and capacity to learn new processes and technologies
• Possess strong teamwork and collaborative skills
• Good Written and verbal communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive API test strategies
• Implement contract/Pact testing to ensure robust system integration
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve API-related issues
• Contribute to the development of new testing tools and methodologies
• Explore and implement AI-based testing solutions
• Participate in continuous improvement of testing processes
• Addressing complex testing challenges and accelerating the regression test process.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with performance testing of APIs
• Knowledge of security testing for APIs
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Proficiency in additional programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript)
• Understanding of Azure DevOps practices