Job Description: API Testing Engineer / API QA Engineer
Position
API Testing Engineer / API QA Engineer
Experience
3-15 Years
Job Summary
API Testing Engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements, technical specifications, and API documentation.
- Design and execute API test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
- Validate REST and SOAP web services.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.
- Validate request/response payloads, business rules, and data transformations.
- Verify API response codes, headers, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Perform backend database validation to ensure data integrity.
- Identify, document, and track defects using defect management tools.
- Automate API test execution and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute performance and load testing for APIs.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum activities and provide testing status reports.
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams for release validation.
Required Skills
API Testing
- Strong experience in API Testing.
- Hands-on experience testing:
- REST APIs
- SOAP APIs
- Microservices-based applications
- Understanding of API architecture and lifecycle.
- Experience in validating request/response payloads.
API Testing Tools
- Postman
- Swagger/OpenAPI
- SoapUI
- Insomnia
Functional Testing
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- End-to-End Testing
Data Validation
- JSON Validation
- XML Validation
- Request/Response Verification
- Schema Validation
Database Testing
- Strong SQL skills
- Data Validation
- CRUD Operations Validation
- Backend Verification
Databases
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
Automation Testing (Preferred)
Experience with:
- Rest Assured
- Postman Collections & Newman
- Selenium (API/UI integration)
- Karate Framework
- Apache HttpClient
Programming Languages
Security Testing Knowledge
- OAuth 2.0
- JWT Authentication
- API Keys
- Basic Authentication
- Authorization Validation
- OWASP API Security Top 10
- Data Encryption Verification
Performance Testing
- API Performance Testing
- Load Testing
- Stress Testing
- Scalability Testing
Tools
- JMeter
- LoadRunner
- k6
- Gatling
CI/CD & DevOps
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
Source Control
Tools & Technologies
Test Management
- JIRA
- Azure DevOps
- HP ALM / Quality Center
API Documentation Tools
- Swagger
- OpenAPI
- Postman Documentation
Monitoring Tools (Preferred)
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microservices Testing.
- Cloud exposure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience in CI/CD implementation.
- ISTQB Certification.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience in Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecom, or Retail domains.
Interview Focus Areas
- API Testing Concepts
- REST vs SOAP
- HTTP Methods & Status Codes
- Postman and SoapUI
- JSON/XML Validation
- SQL Queries and Backend Validation
- Authentication & Authorization Mechanisms
- API Automation Frameworks (Rest Assured/Karate)
- Performance Testing using JMeter
- CI/CD Integration
Keywords
API Testing, REST API, SOAP API, Postman, SoapUI, Swagger, Rest Assured, Karate Framework, SQL, JSON, XML, Microservices Testing, OAuth, JWT, API Automation, JMeter, CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, API QA Engineer.