Automation API Tester for Enterprises (India)

Overview Automation API Tester for Banking Project Responsibilities - Review API specifications (REST, SOAP, GraphQL etc.) / requirement documents and understand business logic and edge cases. - Design test cases for API / service endpoints: positive, negative, boundary, error conditions, schema / contract validation, versioning. - Develop, maintain, and enhance test automation scripts & frameworks (API / integration testing) using tools like RestAssured, Postman, SoapUI, or equivalent. - Create and maintain test data, stubs / mocks / service virtualization where external dependencies are unavailable or unreliable. - Execute automated & manual tests (for integration / regression) and analyze results. - Identify defects; log, track, and follow up on them with devs; validate fixes. - Ensure tests are integrated into CI/CD pipelines to enable automated regression / build validation. - Perform nonfunctional testing as required: e.g. performance, load, latency, reliability, and possibly security of APIs. - Monitor and report test metrics: coverage, pass/fail rates, defect density, test reliability, regression times etc. - Collaborate with crossfunctional teams: Development, Product, Ops / DevOps, to ensure that API related issues (scalability, security, error handling, monitoring) are addressed. Essential skills - Strong expertise in Java (experienced in writing API scripts according to best practices). - Proficiency in BDD/Gherkin with Cucumber. - Experience with API investigation/manual tools such as Postman, Bruno, and Insomnia. - Playwright: ability to understand and write code (good to have, as UI tests may move to Playwright). - Ruby with Cucumber (Selenium framework): experience in writing and executing UI automation scripts. - Able to write and execute functional, regression, and smoke test cases. - Experience in peer review of test cases. - Hands-on experience with test management tools. - Experience in the banking sector is preferred. - Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins). - Good understanding of GitLab for code versioning and maintenance Desired skills - Java robust coding skills, best practices for API test automation. - REST API Automation 58 years with Rest-Assured and Wiremock. - API Tools (manual/investigation): Postman, Bruno, Insomnia. - Swagger interpretation and test case derivation. - CI/CD Jenkins integration for running automation pipelines. - Version Control GitLab for structured code maintenance. - BDD/Gherkin with Cucumber. - Playwright (UI automation) nice-to-have. - Ruby + Cucumber (Selenium) UI automation scripting. Experience - 58 years of REST API automation experience using Rest-Assured frameworks and Wiremock for mocks. .