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 non?functional 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 cross?functional 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 understan ding of GitLab for code versioning and maintenance
  

Desired Skills

• Java strong 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

• 10 years of professional testing experience.
• 58 years of REST API automation experience using Rest-Assured frameworks and Wiremock for mocks.