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Python API Automation Test Lead

Digital Datum lnc

 

Reston, VA, USA

Posted On: 2 days ago
Experience: 8+ years
Availability: Hybrid
Openings: 1
Category: API Automation Tester
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

Lead QA automation for API and microservices testing within agile product teams.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

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

Required Skills

  • 8+ years overall QA/testing experience, with 4+ years in API test automation.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and libraries like PyTest, Requests, Robot Framework, or 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).

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).

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees

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