API Automation Test Engineer

Job Title: API Automation Test Engineer

Experience: 6-10yrs

Location: Bangalore / Chennai/ Gurgaon / Pune / Hyderabad / Kolkata

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled API Automation Test Engineer to design, develop, and maintain API automation frameworks for RESTful services. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Playwright-based API automation, deep understanding of HTTP/REST architecture, and solid experience in JavaScript/TypeScript-based framework development, Performance testing, Jmeter testing. This role requires ownership of automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with development and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. API Test Automation (Primary Focus)

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for REST APIs.
• Automate API test cases using Playwright.
• Implement reusable utilities for request building, response validation, authentication handling, and schema validation.
• Develop automated tests for:
• Negative scenarios
• Boundary and edge cases
• Authentication & authorization flows (OAuth/JWT)
• Validate API contracts, status codes, headers, payload structures, and response time.

2. Technical Expertise (Core Requirements)

HTTP / REST Fundamentals

• Strong understanding of:
• HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)
• Status codes & error handling
• Headers, cookies, sessions
• RESTful API principles
• Hands-on knowledge of:
• JSON request/response validation
• OAuth 2.0 flows
• JWT token validation & decoding

3. Programming & Backend Understanding

• Strong coding skills in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Experience working with backend frameworks such as:
• Node.js
• NestJS (Good to have)
• Ability to:
• Debug API issues at application layer
• Read backend logs
• Understand middleware, interceptors, and request lifecycle

4. Test Framework Design & Engineering

• Architect modular and scalable automation frameworks.
• Implement:
• Environment configuration management
• Data-driven testing
• Parallel execution
• Reporting & logging mechanisms
• Maintain code quality using best practices:
• Clean code principles
• Reusable components
• Version control discipline

5. Functional Testing Capability

• Analyze business requirements and technical specifications.
• Perform:
• API functional validation
• Integration testing
• Regression testing

6. CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using:
• Git workflows
• GitHub Actions
• AWS-based pipelines (Good to have)
• Ensure:
• Automated test execution on PR/Merge
• Test reporting in pipeline
• Quality gate enforcement

7. Cloud & Deployment Awareness (Good to Have)

Basic understanding of AWS services such as:

• Amazon EKS
• AWS Application Load Balancer
• Amazon CloudWatch

Ability to:

• Validate APIs deployed in containerized environments
• Analyze logs and monitor failures in cloud environments

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years in QA background.
• Atleast 4+ years in API automation testing.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Playwright API automation.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.