Automation QA Lead — API Gateway Platform

Huntington Bancshares, Inc.; Birmingham (MI); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington Bancshares, Inc. is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. The role blends hands-on engineering with quality leadership to ensure reliable, scalable, secure enterprise API services.

The successful candidate will design modern automation frameworks, build reusable test suites, and embed quality across the SDLC, including CI/CD in Azure DevOps. Strong leadership and DevOps experience are required.

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.
• Experience working within Agile and DevOps environments.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

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 software development lifecycle.
• Define quality metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks and test harnesses for enterprise API services.
• Build automated API validation suites covering functionality, security, performance, resiliency, and compliance requirements.
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automated regression suites that enable rapid and reliable platform releases.
• Create automation solutions that reduce manual testing effort while increasing test coverage and release confidence.
• Lead testing efforts for API Gateway platform enhancements, upgrades, and new capabilities.
• Develop automated validation for API proxy configurations, security policies, routing, authentication, authorization, and traffic management controls.
• Validate enterprise integrations across internal and external consumer applications.
• Support testing of production fixes, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Ensure APIs meet functional, performance, scalability, and security requirements.

Skills

REST APIs

Automation design

Quality assurance

Agile

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

Karate

Rest Assured

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Java

JavaScript

Python

C#

Job description

Huntington Bancshares, Inc. is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. The role blends hands-on engineering with quality leadership to ensure reliable, scalable, secure enterprise API services.

The successful candidate will design modern automation frameworks, build reusable test suites, and embed quality across the SDLC, including CI/CD in Azure DevOps. Strong leadership and DevOps experience are required.