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 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
Solid 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 (Jenkin

📌 Automation Tester for BNPPF Offshore (India)
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📍 India