KAARA.AI IS HIRING

QA: API & Microservices Automation Test Engineer

Banking APIs · Distributed Services · Automation

Function: Information Technology

Experience: 5 - 8 years

Location: Bangalore

ROLE PURPOSE

We are hiring an API & Microservices Automation Test Engineer to test banking APIs and distributed services, with robust focus on contract validation, resilience and CI/CD regression.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

- Banking APIs and distributed services.
- REST/SOAP/gRPC contracts, gateway/BFF, auth, and schemas.
- Idempotency, negative and resilience tests.
- Events, mocks and CI/CD regression.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Banking and channels: Experience in banking or regulated financial services, preferably Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, payment journeys, onboarding or customer servicing.

QA lifecycle: Test planning, risk-based scenario design, test-case preparation, execution, evidence, defect lifecycle, retesting,

regression, traceability, UAT support and closure.

• API testing: Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI and REST API validation. REST Assured or equivalent automation experience is preferred

for technical profiles.

• Automation: Hands-on skill in Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium or equivalent.



TOSCA is an added advantage, not a substitute

for domain and hands-on testing capability.

• Architecture: Understanding of microservices, API gateways/BFF, event-driven integration, external dependencies, distributed

logs/traces and CI/CD-integrated testing.

• Tools: Jira, ServiceNow, HP ALM or Zephyr; Git; CI/CD test execution; dashboards and test-evidence management.

• Channels: Exposure to web, iOS/Android mobile, APIs, backend services and end-to-end integrated journeys.

Ways of working: Agile/Scrum, story refinement, acceptance-criteria review, sprint ceremonies, defect triage and cross-team

coordination.

Communication: Ability to communicate business impact, dependency risk, test status and release concerns to Bank, SI partner,

product, engineering and control teams.

Data and security: Responsible handling of test data, masking, evidence redaction, credentials and sensitive banking information.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Java or JS/TS coding.

• REST Assured, Postman, WireMock.

• Kafka/event testing.

• SQL and logs/traces.

Kaara.AI

📌 QA: API & Microservices Automation Test Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kaara Info Systems Private
📍 Bengaluru