API Automation Engineer

Job Description

Project Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Test Automation Engineer to join our team at offshore. As a Test Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for performing test automation for our software projects. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, testers, and project managers, to develop and test automation solutions. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in both commercial and open-source testing automation tools and Service Virtualisation tools.

Responsibilities:

. Understand Business flows of automation identified candidates.

. Develop automation scripts based on the guidelines & templates - design, create, enhance, stabilise, batch execute.

. Build reusable business components for easy maintenance.

. Integrate automation scripts in QTest, batch execution.

. Build necessary automation script adaptations to support different test environments.

. Implement data creation and mining solutions as per the automated test case requirement.

. Implement recovery mechanism for seamless executions.

. Perform peer reviews automation scripts for correctness & completeness.

. Maintain automation scripts & debug them.

. Execute, monitor and report on the automation suite as per the release cycles.

. Review application defect log with application subject matter expert (SME).

. Report on development, execution and defects.

. Commit test script changes to the version controlling tool on a regular basis.

. Raise defects, conduct re-tests, update defect records

. Actively participate in workshops, specification reviews and technical reviews

. Provide an excellent understanding of test automation methodologies and processes.

. Provide hands on experience in web services, API, micro services and API architectures.

. Provide an API testing tool skillset using Postman and Postman Collections.

. Implement opensource automation frameworks - Karate, Cucumber reporting. (On-premise & cloud.)

. Provide a coding skillset based on project preferred programming language - Java, JavaScript, C#, .Net, PowerShell preference with C#.

Integrate automation scripts to CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing.

. Research new products and industry methodologies, and facilitate the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards.

Support continuous improvement of the automation process.

Mandatory Skills Description:

. Software Quality Assurance professional with 5+ years experience

. The ideal candidate will be an experienced API automation tester with Service Virtualisation

. 2nd option is an experienced API automation tester with cloud (highly desirable)

. 3rd option is experienced API automation tester

. Any automation tools are ok however Postman would be preferred, if not SoapUI

. Domain background around payments and banking highly desirable

Nice to have:

. Extensive experience in software Test automation tools and working in fast-paced Agile Environments

. Good knowledge of Testing Life cycle processes

. Extensive experience working in Behavior-driven development (BDD) tools e.g., Cucumber

. Experienced in development API Automation scripts using Karate framework and POSTMAN API

. Extensive experience working in the areas of Java development, open source test automation tools and Selenium Web Driver, Junit and Maven

. Ability of design Generic functions and enable modifications of existing framework

. Hands on test case design, creation, management and execution