Description

You will lead the QA automation efforts for API and microservices testing within agile product teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain scalable Python-based automation frameworks for RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Perform end-to-end integration testing across multiple microservices and backend systems.
• Define and implement test strategies, automation best practices, and continuous testing approaches.
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure CI/CD test coverage.
• Mentor and guide a team of automation engineers on automation best practices and quality assurance.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of overall QA/testing experience, with 4+ years focused on API test automation.
• Strong proficiency in Python and related automation libraries/frameworks (PyTest, Requests, Robot Framework, unittest).
• Expertise in RESTful, SOAP, and GraphQL API testing.
• Experience in microservices testing, including contract testing and service virtualization.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Solid understanding of end-to-end system integration testing in distributed architectures.
• Knowledge of Postman, Swagger, OpenAPI, JMeter, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with BDD frameworks (Behave, Cucumber).
• Exposure to message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees