Job Title:

API Quality Engineer

Job Description

The API Quality Engineer will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation and automation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape

What you will be doing:

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Quality and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation.
• Implement comprehensive automated testing of APIs, including contract testing, performance and security to produce production ready code each sprint.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and leverage new technologies, tools, and techniques to solve complex technical challenges in testing, test environments and test data.
• Utilize testing frameworks, pipelines and tools that promote a shift-left testing approach.
• Enforce quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain the quality and stability of the test frameworks.
• Act as a subject matter expert on API testing topics, provide technical guidance to stakeholders on test automation strategies and best practices, and contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing efforts.
• Collaborate with development, QE, DevOps, product management, and other cross-functional teams to align quality goals, communicate testing progress and issues, and drive continuous improvement in quality.
• Champion a culture of innovation, creativity, and excellence in Quality within the Digital teams, fostering collaboration, continuous learning and a positive work environment.

What you will need:

• Advanced knowledge of full SDLC and test automation best practices for large scale API-based software products, with focus on CI/CD practices and automated testing
• Extensive hands-on experience with REST API testing frameworks.
• Proficient in JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Advanced knowledge in Contract and integration testing.
• Hands on experience implementing consumer driven API contract tests using tools such as Pact
• Experience with API testing frameworks like Playwright, Rest Assured
• Experience with Postman, REST API
• Understanding of API app development frameworks, architectures, and technologies to effectively design and execute testing strategies.
• Ability to analyze logs, debug issues, and troubleshoot API performance, compatibility, and functionality issues.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, processes, and best practices, including agile testing methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience in creating and maintaining test documentation, defect tracking, and reporting using tools like Jira, Bugzilla, TestRail, or similar.
• Experience with test data setup and API mocking.
• Experience with code coverage and quality gating tools such as SonarQube.
• Hands-on Experience with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using build tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
• Deep understanding of API and microservices testing best practices.
• Proficient in debugging and log analysis.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with multiple teams across the organization.
• Knowledge and experience with performance and security testing is a plus.
• Knowledge of modern software development practices such as Agile methodologies, continuous integration, and test-driven development (TDD).
• Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement.
• Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent relevant experience

Location:

MEX Work-at-Home

Language Requirements:

Time Type:

Full time

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