API Automation Lead & Quality Architect

Huntington National Bank; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. This role combines hands‑on automation engineering, quality leadership, and platform‑level test strategy to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and performance of enterprise API services.

The successful candidate will design modern automation frameworks, develop reusable automated test suites, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and establish

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in software quality assurance, automation engineering, or quality engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of hands‑on experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks.
• Experience testing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Postman, Karate, Rest Assured, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent.
• Experience developing automation using Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, or similar programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the test automation vision and roadmap for the API Gateway platform.
• Design and implement scalable automation frameworks supporting API, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Establish quality engineering standards, testing best practices, and automation governance across the platform.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
• Define quality metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks and test harnesses for enterprise API services.

Skills

REST API testing

Microservices

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Karate

Rest Assured

Job description

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. This role combines hands‑on automation engineering, quality leadership, and platform‑level test strategy to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and performance of enterprise API services.

The successful candidate will design modern automation frameworks, develop reusable automated test suites, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and establish