api automation

Job Description Key Responsibilities: 1. API Test Automation: - Design, develop, and execute automated API test scripts for RESTful APIs and SOAP Web Services. - Create and maintain automated test frameworks for API testing using tools like Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, or JMeter. - Ensure that API endpoints meet functional, regression, performance, and security requirements through automation. 1. Test Plan & Strategy: - Define the test strategy for API testing and automation. - Collaborate with product teams to understand API specifications, user stories, and business requirements. - Develop test plans, test cases, and test data for API automation based on detailed API documentation. 1. Test Execution & Reporting: - Execute automated tests regularly as part of CI/CD pipelines and provide detailed test reports. - Track and report API testing results, identifying defects and work with developers to resolve them. - Maintain a detailed record of defects and work with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely resolution. 1. Performance & Load Testing: - Automate performance and load tests to ensure APIs can handle expected traffic and data loads. - Utilize performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling) to measure API response times, scalability, and stability. 1. Security & Compliance Testing: - Automate security testing for APIs, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption. - Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards for API development and testing. 1. CI/CD Integration: - Integrate API test automation into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing. - Work with DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of API testing into automated deployment pipelines. 1. Collaboration with Development Teams: - Collaborate closely with backend developers to understand API functionality, edge cases, and integration points. - Review API documentation and provide feedback for improvement to ensure the consistency and clarity of API specifications. 1. Maintain Automation Frameworks: - Continuously improve and refactor automation frameworks to enhance test coverage and efficiency. - Maintain automated test scripts and libraries to ensure they stay current with changing application functionality and APIs. 1. Test Reporting & Analytics: - Provide detailed test reports and analytics to the team and management on the status and results of API tests. - Identify trends and areas for improvement based on test results and provide recommendations to enhance API quality. Skills and Qualifications: Mandatory Skills: - Strong experience in API testing (RESTful APIs, SOAP Web Services). - Proficiency in test automation tools such as Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, JMeter, or similar. - Expertise in programming languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, or Groovy to write and maintain automation scripts. - Strong knowledge of API architecture and API protocols (HTTP, SOAP, JSON, XML). - Hands-on experience in performance testing and load testing of APIs. - Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to integrate test automation into the development pipeline. - Experience with version control systems such as Git. - Familiarity with Agile development and test-driven development (TDD) principles. Desired Skills: - Experience in security testing for APIs (e.g., OWASP API Security Testing). - Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. - Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP for testing APIs in cloud-based environments. - Ability to work with mocking frameworks like WireMock or MockServer. - Experience with load testing and stress testing tools (e.g., Gatling, Apache JMeter).