Quality Engineer

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.