Job Description:

Senior API Automation Test Engineer/ Lead

10-13yrs

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 (Valuable 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

- 9+ years in QA background.
- Atleast 6+ years in API automation testing.
- 5+ years hands-on experience with Playwright API automation.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Exposure to microservices architecture.

About Company:

Welcome to Tredence! Since our founding in 2013, we have been dedicated to transforming data into actionable insights, helping over 50 Fortune 500 clients win in their respective industries. With our headquarters in San Jose and a presence in 5 countries, our mission is to be the world’s most indispensable analytics partner. At Tredence, we blend deep domain expertise with advanced AI and data science to drive unparalleled business value. We are excited to have you join us on this innovative journey.

📌 Senior API Automation Test Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tredence
📍 Bengaluru