Senior API Test Engineer/ Lead

Tredence; Gurugram District, Bengaluru, Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tredence is seeking a Senior API Automation Test Engineer Lead in India to design, develop, and own scalable REST API automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript. You will drive CI/CD integration, collaborate with DevOps, and ensure high quality through robust data-driven tests, performance checks, and contract validation across microservices.

The role demands strong backend understanding, experience with Node.js/NestJS, and hands-on TS/JS coding, along with guiding a team in an Agile

Qualifications

• 10–13 years in QA with strong API automation exposure.
• Expertise in Playwright-based API automation and TS/JS.
• Hands-on with REST/HTTP, OAuth/JWT, and schema validation.
• CI/CD integration and test automation in pipelines.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable REST API automation frameworks.
• Automate API tests using Playwright and TS/JS.
• Build reusable utilities for requests, validation, auth, and schema checks.
• Create tests for negative, boundary scenarios and OAuth/JWT flows.
• Validate contracts, status codes, headers, payloads, and performance.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.

Skills

API Automation

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Node.js

NestJS

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

Senior API Automation Test Engineer / Lead

Experience: 10-13yrs

Location: Bangalore / Chennai / Hyderabad / Pune / Gurgaon / Kolkata

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled API Automation Test Engineer to design, develop, and maintain API automation frameworks for RESTful services. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Playwright-based API automation, deep understanding of HTTP/REST architecture, and solid experience in JavaScript/TypeScript-based framework development, Performance testing, Jmeter testing. This role requires ownership of automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with development and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. API Test Automation (Primary Focus)

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for REST APIs.
• Automate API test cases using Playwright.
• Implement reusable utilities for request building, response validation, authentication handling, and schema validation.
• Develop automated tests for:
  • Negative scenarios
  • Boundary and edge cases
  • Authentication & authorization flows (OAuth/JWT)
• Validate API contracts, status codes, headers, payload structures, and response time.

2. Technical Expertise (Core Requirements)

HTTP / REST Fundamentals

• Strong understanding of:
  • HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)
  • Status codes & error handling
  • Headers, cookies, sessions
  • RESTful API principles
• Hands-on knowledge of:
  • JSON request/response validation
  • OAuth 2.0 flows
  • JWT token validation & decoding

3. Programming & Backend Understanding

• Strong coding skills in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Experience working with backend frameworks such as:
  • Node.js
  • NestJS (Good to have)
• Ability to:
  • Debug API issues at application layer
  • Read backend logs
  • Understand middleware, interceptors, and request lifecycle

4. Test Framework Design & Engineering

• Architect modular and scalable automation frameworks.
• Implement:
  • Environment configuration management
  • Data-driven testing
  • Parallel execution
  • Reporting & logging mechanisms
• Maintain code quality using best practices:
  • Clean code principles
  • Reusable components
  • Version control discipline

5. Functional Testing Capability

• Analyze business requirements and technical specifications.
• Perform:
  • API functional validation
  • Integration testing
  • Regression testing

6. CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using:
  • Git workflows
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS-based pipelines (Good to have)
• Ensure:
  • Automated test execution on PR/Merge
  • Test reporting in pipeline
  • Quality gate enforcement

7. Cloud & Deployment Awareness (Good to Have)

Basic understanding of AWS services such as:

• Amazon EKS
• AWS Application Load Balancer
• Amazon CloudWatch

Ability to:

• Validate APIs deployed in containerized environments
• Analyze logs and monitor failures in cloud environments

Preferred Experience

• 12+ years in QA background.
• Atleast 8+ years in API automation testing.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Playwright API automation.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.