API Test Automation Engineer - Hybrid (DC)

eTelligent Group LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

eTelligent Group LLC in Washington, DC area seeks a QA automation engineer to build automated API tests confirming migrated APIs behave like originals. You'll cover REST and SOAP, ensure 98% pass on first run, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities include comparing webMethods and Kong API versions, testing security (mTLS, OAuth2, JWT), and maintaining organized test data. Requires 1–2 years in testing, knowledge of Python/Java/JavaScript, and ability to obtain IRS MBI.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in software testing, QA automation, or API development.
• Experience testing REST APIs with a tool such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, pytest or SoapUI.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Java or JavaScript.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to obtain and keep an IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI); residency requirements apply.

Responsibilities

• Write automated API tests for REST and SOAP services, covering status codes, headers, payloads and authentication.
• Build functional equivalency tests that compare webMethods and Kong API versions and flag differences.
• Add tests to CI/CD pipelines so every API change is checked before release.
• Test security behavior, including mTLS, OAuth2 and JWT handling, ACLs and rate limits.
• Run smoke tests after production changes and migration cutovers.
• Keep test data, test cases and results organized and traceable to each API.
• Report defects clearly and confirm fixes.

Skills

QA automation

API testing

REST API testing

Python

Java

JavaScript

CI/CD

Git

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Karate

pytest

SoapUI

Job description

eTelligent Group LLC in Washington, DC area seeks a QA automation engineer to build automated API tests confirming migrated APIs behave like originals. You'll cover REST and SOAP, ensure 98% pass on first run, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities include comparing webMethods and Kong API versions, testing security (mTLS, OAuth2, JWT), and maintaining organized test data. Requires 1–2 years in testing, knowledge of Python/Java/JavaScript, and ability to obtain IRS MBI.