Novature Tech

Yesterday New

Location

Chennai

Experience

4 - 10 years

Salary

Not disclosed

Role

-

Keywords

api testing Postman/Newman

Job Description

About the Role:
We are looking for a detail-oriented Manual Test Engineer with strong hands-on experience in API
testing to join our Quality Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for validating the

functionality, reliability, performance, and security of backend services and APIs, ensuring high-
quality releases across our products. You will collaborate closely with developers, product

owners, and DevOps teams in an Agile workplace.
Experience:
4 to 6 years of overall experience in software testing, with at least 2+ years of hands-on API testing
experience.
Transformation from Non-tech to Tech role is not considerable, Pure testing experience needed
throughout the career timeline.
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
(or equivalent practical experience).
Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive manual test cases for web and backend

applications based on business and functional requirements.

- Perform API testing (REST and SOAP) to validate request/response structures, status

codes, headers, payload schemas, authentication, and error handling.

- Work extensively with Postman (collections, environments, pre-request scripts, test

scripts) and other API testing tools (e.g., Swagger, SoapUI).

- Understanding about API automation of regression suites





using Postman/Newman or Rest Assured (scripted validation of API responses).

- Conduct integration testing, end-to-end testing, and contract testing between

microservices and downstream systems.

- Validate database data integrity by writing SQL queries (joins, stored procedures, data

flow validation).

- Perform functional, regression, smoke, sanity, negative, and exploratory testing.
- Identify, log, and track defects using tools like JIRA / Azure DevOps, and collaborate with

developers to reproduce and resolve issues.

- Validate API security aspects such as authentication (OAuth 2.0, JWT, Basic Auth),

authorization, and input validation.

- Support performance testing awareness by collaborating with the performance team

(basic knowledge of JMeter preferred).

- Contribute to test plans, test strategies, requirement traceability matrices (RTM),

and daily/weekly test summary reports.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming,

and retrospectives.
Good to Have

- Exposure to API automation using __Rest Assured (Java)__, __Newman__, or __Karate

Framework.

- Basic knowledge of performance testing tools (__JMeter__) for API load testing.
- Understanding of __CI/CD pipelines__ (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines) and running

API tests within them.

- Familiarity with __monitoring/logging tools__ (Splunk, Kibana, Grafana) for debugging API

issues.

- Exposure to mobile API testing, Kafka/message queue validation, or GraphQL.
- ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Level certification.

Job Summary

Location

Chennai

Experience

4 - 10 years

Posted

20 Oct 2026

📌 Manual Tester (Chennai)
🏢 Novature Tech
📍 Chennai