API QA Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore is seeking an API QA Engineer to strengthen our enterprise QA practice. You will drive test planning, execution, and automation for REST and SOAP APIs, focusing on quality across microservices and data validation.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of QA experience, strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and hands-on expertise with API testing tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of QA experience in enterprise-level environments.
• Strong expertise in test planning, execution, and defect management.
• Proficiency in functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Automation-first mindset to identify repeatable patterns and implement automation.
• Strong analytical skills with a questioning attitude and good communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test cases for REST/SOAP APIs.
• Validate REST/SOAP API responses using assertions for payloads, status codes, headers, and schemas.
• Build and manage Postman/API collections to support automated and manual tests.
• Collaborate with developers, BAs, and DevOps to ensure quality delivery and CI/CD integration.

Skills

QA experience

Test planning

Analytical skills

Communication

Tools

Postman

SOAP UI

Swagger

REST Assured

Karate

JMeter

Job description

Hiring API QA Engineer

Location-Bangalore

API QA JD:

• Minimum 5+ years of QA experience in enterprise-level environments
• Strong expertise in test planning, execution, and defect management.*
• Proficiency in functional, integration, and regression testing.*
• Automation-first mindset ability to identify repeatable patterns and proactively implement automation solutions.
• Strong analytical skills with a questioning attitude – must challenge assumptions and raise flags when outcomes deviate from expectations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Preferred Skill sets.

• Design, develop, and execute test cases for REST/SOAP APIs.
• Hands-on experience with API testing tools like:
• Postman, SOAP UI, Swagger, REST Assured, Karate, JMeter (for API performance)
• Validate REST/SOAP API responses using Assertions for payloads, status codes, headers, and schema structures.
• Build and manage Postman/API collections to support automated and manual test workflows.
• Good knowledge of JSON, XML, XPath, XSD, and schemas.
• Performfunctional, integration, regression, and performance testingof APIs.
• Knowledge of SQL and ability to validate backend data.
• Create and maintain API automation scriptsusing industrystandard tools.
• Work closely with developers, BAs, and DevOps teams to understand requirements and ensure quality delivery.
• Analyze Splunk logs, troubleshoot issues, and participate in defect triage discussions.
• Validate API-level security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, etc.).
• Ensure data consistency across databases, microservices, and backend layers.
• Contribute to CI/CD integration of API automation suites.
• Prepare test reports, metrics, and documentation.
• Familiarity with API automation frameworks (TestNG, JUnit, Maven/Gradle).
• Experience working withCI/CD pipelines(Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).