Senior Test Automation Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Test Automation Engineer

Description

Design, build, and maintain Python-based automated API test suites for backend services, focusing on a scalable and maintainable framework for long-term regression testing. Develop comprehensive functional, integration, regression, negative, and error-handling API tests with deep validation of requests, responses, and business rules. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and fix defects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated API test suites using Python
• Build and enhance a scalable API test automation framework
• Develop test cases alongside backend application development
• Perform functional, integration, regression, negative, and error-handling API testing
• Validate API requests and responses, status codes, payloads, business rules, data integrity, and backend integrations
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing
• Analyze test failures, identify defects, and collaborate with developers to troubleshoot backend and API issues
• Ensure test automation is reusable, maintainable, and supports long-term application growth

Requirements

• Strong hands-on Python programming experience for test automation
• Strong API testing and API automation experience
• Experience designing or enhancing test automation frameworks using pytest, requests, or equivalent Python frameworks
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, HTTP methods, status codes, authentication, and API validation
• Experience integrating automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

Supports long-term regression testing through a maintainable, scalable automation framework.