Senior MuleSoft API Automation Engineer

Tarkine Consulting Group; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

Tarkine Consulting is supporting a major insurance client on a MuleSoft/Integration Platform engagement, building testing capability for a newly formed MuleSoft squad. This is a hands-on role focused on validating MuleSoft APIs deployed on CloudHub, not generic UI automation.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on MuleSoft API testing experience plus REST API fundamentals (REST Assured, JUnit, Spring Boot), and a track record of implementing automated regression suites within CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior automation/API testing roles.
• Hands-on MuleSoft API testing experience, including CloudHub.
• Strong REST API testing fundamentals with REST Assured, JUnit, Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Validate MuleSoft APIs on CloudHub with end-to-end functional tests.
• Build and maintain automated API regression suites with data-driven tests.
• Contribute to MuleSoft platform testing and API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI).
• Create and use service virtualization (Hoverfly/WireMock) to stabilize tests.
• Embed MuleSoft API test automation into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub workflows.
• Support API security and observability (Splunk/New Relic) and performance testing (Gatling/JMeter).

Skills

MuleSoft API testing

REST API testing

CI/CD pipelines

Postman

JSON schema validation

XML schema validation

Tools

Bruno CLI

Swagger/OpenAPI

Hoverfly

WireMock

Gatling

JMeter

Job description

Tarkine Consulting is supporting a major insurance client on a MuleSoft/Integration Platform engagement, building testing capability for a newly formed MuleSoft squad. This is a hands-on role focused on validating MuleSoft APIs deployed on CloudHub, not generic UI automation.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on MuleSoft API testing experience plus REST API fundamentals (REST Assured, JUnit, Spring Boot), and a track record of implementing automated regression suites within CI/CD pipelines.