This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an SDET - API/Middleware based in India.

This role focuses on bringing deep technical rigor to API and middleware-layer quality assurance for complex web applications. You’ll analyze and reconstruct network interactions between frontend clients and backend services, working across modern protocols and API architectures. The position goes beyond conventional UI automation, emphasizing protocol-level analysis, automated API testing, network evidence, and controlled replay. You’ll work with technologies including gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, JSON-RPC, REST, Python, and proxy-based traffic inspection tools. Close collaboration with backend and middleware engineers will help define robust contracts, uncover edge cases, and improve system reliability. This is a remote, project-based chance suited to an engineer who enjoys investigating how systems communicate and turning complex network behavior into reliable, repeatable tests.

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Accountabilities:

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Design, build,



and maintain automated API test suites covering gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, JSON-RPC, and REST-based services.

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Analyze network interactions generated by web applications and establish traceability between user actions and corresponding API requests and responses.

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Capture, sanitize, document, and maintain HAR and other network evidence while preserving relevant technical context.

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Map API schemas, request and response structures, headers, identifiers, routing information, enums, authentication elements, and client-injected parameters.

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Use tools such as Mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, and browser developer tools to inspect, intercept, analyze, and validate client-server traffic.

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Develop and maintain API automation and validation scripts using Python, Postman, and cURL.

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Analyze protocol-level behavior to identify defects involving serialization, encoding, transport, request

📌 SDET - API/Middleware (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India