API Test Automation Engineer

About the role

This is a hands-on senior technical role for an engineer with deep expertise in test automation and scripting. The successful candidate will design and build robust automation frameworks, drive quality across the Scrum team, and mentor junior QA automation engineers.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks that improve test efficiency, coverage, and reliability
• Review automation code produced by the Scrum team to ensure compliance with coding best practices, framework standards, and maintainability
• Build and maintain automated API tests alongside UI automation to ensure end-to-end coverage
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product, DevOps) to integrate automation seamlessly into the development lifecycle and CI/CD pipeline
• Work within Agile/Scrum methodologies - participating in sprints, stand-ups, backlog refinement, and planning sessions

What you need

• 6–8 years in quality assurance & testing
• Test automation
• API testing
• REST APIs
• Bug tracking
• Selenium
• Unit testing
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Performance testing
• Cucumber
• JIRA
• SQL
• Java
• Postman