API QA Lead — Onsite Seattle, Governance

Experis Technology Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

Health Savings Account

401(k), Plus Match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup seeks an experienced API QA Lead to guide quality engineering for Costco’s migration-focused platform modernization. You will lead API testing strategy, govern readiness and defects, and coordinate with onshore/offshore teams across multiple waves.

Candidate will own governance, provide risk-based Go/No-Go decisions, and drive production-readiness through robust metric reporting and evidence-based decisions. Onsite in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering, API/integration or cloud modernization testing.
• Experience leading customer-facing QE governance for large migration programs.
• Hands-on with REST APIs, microservices, and modern cloud tech.
• Knowledge of JWT, OAuth 2.0, Entra ID, RBAC and API security validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead API Quality Engineering for migration-focused validation of up to 257 in-scope APIs and repositories across migration waves.
• Serve as the primary testing point of contact for Costco QE, architects, application teams, APIM or Apigee, platform teams, and the offshore QE team.
• Ensure testing stays aligned to SOW boundaries, including API integration testing, API-level regression checks, and limited API performance testing.
• Own test governance: scope alignment, readiness reviews, defect governance, quality reporting, and production-readiness recommendations.
• Provide quality-based recommendations for migration-wave progression, including risk reviews, Go/No-Go discussions, and timely clarification coordination.

Skills

Test strategy leadership

Customer-facing governance

API testing

REST APIs

Microservices

Azure

AKS

APIM/Apigee

CI/CD

Security validation

Stakeholder management

Tools

APIM/Apigee

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ManpowerGroup seeks an experienced API QA Lead to guide quality engineering for Costco’s migration-focused platform modernization. You will lead API testing strategy, govern readiness and defects, and coordinate with onshore/offshore teams across multiple waves.

Candidate will own governance, provide risk-based Go/No-Go decisions, and drive production-readiness through robust metric reporting and evidence-based decisions. Onsite in Seattle, WA.