API Test Automation Lead

Job Description

Role Overview

As the API Test Automation Lead, you will own API quality engineering, automation strategy, reliability

validation, contract testing, and API security assurance across platforms. Automation testing experience is

required. You will define the quality standards and tooling that ensure every API released is correct,

performant, secure, and reliably testable through automated frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the API quality engineering strategy: automation coverage targets, testing pyramid,
  
  

and release quality gates.

• Build and maintain API automation frameworks covering REST, GraphQL, and gRPC across
  
  

functional, contract, and regression dimensions.

• Establish contract testing standards using consumer-driven contract testing (Pact or equivalent)
  
  

across service boundaries.

• Drive performance and load testing programmes: baseline definition, degradation detection, and
  
  

capacity validation.

• Define API security testing practices: authentication bypass, injection, rate limit validation, OWASP
  
  

API Top 10 coverage.

• Implement and govern quality gates across CI/CD pipelines: blocking gates, coverage thresholds, and
  
  

reporting dashboards.

• Extend testing coverage to web, mobile, and end-to-end flows — not limited to API layer — ensuring
  
  

full release validation.

• Own defect management lifecycle: triage, root-cause analysis, severity classification, and remediation
  
  

tracking across teams.

• Lead QA team and drive automation-first testing culture: upskilling engineers and establishing testing
  
  

standards across squads.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong experience in automated web, mobile, API, and end-to-end test engineering; automation-first
  
  

mindset required

• Hands-on expertise in test automation frameworks and API testing tools
• Strong understanding of test strategy, defect management, and release validationtrong experience in automated web, mobile, API, and end-to-end test engineering; automation-first
  
  

mindset required

• Excellent debugging, root-cause analysis, and quality assurance skills
• Experience leading QA teams and driving automation-first testing practices
  
  

Preferred Skills

• GraphQL testing depth: query complexity testing, schema validation, subscription testing
• Chaos engineering: fault injection, resilience testing, steady-state hypothesis validation
• Kafka and event-driven testing: consumer/producer testing, schema registry validation, message
  
  

ordering tests

• Observability platforms: using Grafana, Jaeger, or Datadog traces to inform and augment test
  
  

coverage

• AI API testing: non-deterministic output testing strategies, LLM response
  
  

Required Skills

['As the API Test Automation Lead, you will own API quality engineering, automation strategy, reliability validation, contract testing, and API security assurance ']

Additional Information

• Kafka and event-driven testing: consumer/producer testing, schema registry validation, message
  
  

ordering tests

• Observability platforms: using Grafana, Jaeger, or Datadog traces to inform and augment test
  
  

coverage

• AI API testing: non-deterministic output testing strategies, LLM response