This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

**Salary range: Rs 1500000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 15-25 LPA)

**Min Experience: 4 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Quality Engineer with 4–8 years of experience, specializing in API testing, to join our growing technology team. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of backend systems by validating APIs and integrations across complex distributed architectures.

As a Quality Engineer, you will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to design and execute comprehensive test strategies. Your primary focus will be on validating RESTful and/or SOAP APIs, ensuring seamless data exchange between services, and identifying defects early in the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain automated and manual test cases for API testing.
Validate API functionality, reliability, performance, and security using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, or similar frameworks.
Perform functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of APIs.
Analyze API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI) and ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements.
Create and execute test scripts to validate request/response structures, headers, authentication, and error handling.
Collaborate with development teams to debug issues and ensure high-quality releases.
Integrate API test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
Monitor API performance and conduct load or stress testing when required.
Maintain detailed documentation of test cases, test results, and defect reports.
Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

4–8 years of experience in software quality engineering with a strong focus on API testing.
Solid understanding of RESTful services, HTTP protocols, and microservices architecture.
Hands-on experience with API testing tools such as Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, or similar.
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or JavaScript for test automation.
Experience with test automation frameworks and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Strong knowledge of JSON, XML, and data validation techniques.
Familiarity with authentication methods such as OAuth, JWT, and API keys.
Experience with version control systems like Git.
Good understanding of database concepts and ability to validate backend data (SQL/NoSQL).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
Exposure to containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
Knowledge of security testing practices for APIs.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.