QA-Consultant

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and detail driven QA Engineer to join the Integration team and lead quality assurance activities across backend systems and API layers. The role involves building automated test cases, validating integration logic, and critically developing certification test suites and documentation to evaluate external clients' capability to consume our APIs. This is a hands-on position that collaborates with development, DevOps, business teams, and external integrators.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Integration team to design and execute automated test cases for REST/SOAP APIs and backend flows.
• Build and maintain test suites for API client certification, simulating various usage scenarios and validation rules.
• Prepare client-facing QA documentation, including:
• Certification criteria
• Required API request/response structure
• Example payloads and headers
• Common integration errors and solutions
• Conduct mock API interactions to verify external parties can correctly call and handle APIs.
• Use tools like Postman Collections to package reusable tests for client use.
• Support onboarding sessions with clients to explain test coverage, errors, and success criteria.
• Collaborate with developers to validate:
• API logic
• Data transformation
• Error handling
• Authentication flow (e.g., JWT, OAuth2)
• Track issues in JIRA or azure DevOps write detailed bug reports, and follow up with resolution verification.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation pipelines by integrating test coverage reports and gatekeeping logic.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in QA, with a strong focus on API/backend testing.
• Experience in automated test frameworks (Postman and swagger tools).
• Familiarity with API mocking, service virtualization, and schema validation (JSON/XML).
• Solid grasp of HTTP, REST, SOAP, Swagger/OpenAPI, and authentication protocols.
• Experience writing documentation for external technical consumers or partners.
• Comfortable reading API logs using ELK, AppDynamics, or similar observability tools.