QA Automation Lead - API Gateway Platform

Huntington

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 70,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Wellness program

Job summary

Huntington is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. The role combines hands-on automation, quality leadership, and platform-level testing to ensure reliability, security, and performance of enterprise API services.

You will design modern automation frameworks, develop reusable test suites, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines while supporting functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing

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 test automation vision and roadmap for the API Gateway platform.
Design 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.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning activities.
Create and execute test plans, test cases, and automated test scenarios.
Perform defect analysis, root cause identification, and validation of remediation efforts.
Collaborate closely with developers and product owners to resolve quality issues.
Support user acceptance testing and production verification activities as needed.
Evaluate and introduce modern testing tools, frameworks, and engineering practices.
Promote shift-left testing and automation-first quality practices.
Mentor engineers and team members on automation development and quality engineering techniques.
Drive improvements in release quality, test coverage, deployment reliability, and operational stability.