Backend API Testing

What you’ll do

• Review technical design documents and API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI) to provide meaningful feedback on system testability, edge cases, and potential integration bottlenecks.
• Work closely with the development(s) team to identify test cases that can be automated for new feature releases.
• Design and execute complex test cases targeting backend systems, focusing on data integrity, distributed systems logic, and asynchronous processing.
• API Excellence: Develop comprehensive test suites for RESTful (or gRPC/GraphQL) APIs, validating schema compliance, status codes, payload accuracy, and authentication/authorization protocols.
• Maintain and extend backend automation frameworks, preferably, Locust or Pytest, RestAssured.
• Contribute to your development team on best practices, processes and problem-solving
• Develop automated test result reports and highlight any potential quality risks
• Identify, troubleshoot, and track bugs to resolution
• Be an advocate for automation: Contribute to manual efforts and partner with the engineering team to provide recommendations on how to decrease efforts in manual testing.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience: 4-6 years in Software Quality Assurance, with strong expertise in testing with a proven track record of testing distributed systems, microservices, and backend APIs..
• Test Automation: Skilled in designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks specifically for backend services.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably, Python.
• API Testing: Hands-on experience in both manual and automated testing of REST and/or GraphQL APIs using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or Locust.
• CI/CD and SDLC: Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software development lifecycle concepts, including code review practices, code coverage analysis, continuous testing, and delivery.
• Test Process: Experience in creating comprehensive test plans at the service plan, authoring test cases, executing tests, and adhering to QA best practices.
• Databases: Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Cloud and Deployment: Knowledge of cloud environments (e.g., AWS) and experience with application deployments, including knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Tools and Systems: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git), test management tools (e.g., TestRail), and issue-tracking platforms (e.g., Jira).
• Soft Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in fast-paced Agile development teams with minimal supervision.