Remote API QA Engineer: Drive Reliability & Automation

Naukri Mitra; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual salary $89,334

Flexible work hours

Unlimited PTO

Learning & development stipend

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Home office support

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Naukri Mitra is hiring a Remote API QA Tester to ensure every feature and endpoint delivers flawless results for end users. You will design and execute API tests, build automated suites, and collaborate with global teams to improve quality and reliability.

This fully remote role supports asynchronous work, cross-time-zone collaboration, and a strong remote culture. You will contribute to testing frameworks, APIs, and DevOps workflows while enabling high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of manual and automated API testing experience.
• Solid understanding of HTTP protocols, JSON, XML, status codes and web services architecture.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools like Postman, Swagger, REST Assured, or JMeter.
• Familiarity with API test scripting languages like Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Knowledge of CI/CD environments and working with version control tools like Git.
• Comfort working in fully remote teams across different time zones and using Jira, Confluence, and Slack.
• Strong analytical thinking, communication skills, and an ownership mentality.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive API testing strategies for functionality, reliability, performance, and security.
• Create detailed test plans and cases for RESTful APIs and back-end services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand feature requirements and provide early QA feedback.
• Build and maintain automated test suites using Postman, Swagger, REST Assured, or similar frameworks.
• Monitor test results, log defects, and drive issue resolution across teams.
• Participate in CI pipelines to ensure tests run reliably in remote environments.
• Suggest improvements in QA methodologies to enhance product quality.
• Stay ahead of QA trends, especially in remote API testing.

Tools

Postman

Swagger

REST Assured

JMeter

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

HTTP/JSON/XML

CI/CD

Git

Jira

Confluence

Slack

Job description

Naukri Mitra is hiring a Remote API QA Tester to ensure every feature and endpoint delivers flawless results for end users. You will design and execute API tests, build automated suites, and collaborate with global teams to improve quality and reliability.

This fully remote role supports asynchronous work, cross-time-zone collaboration, and a strong remote culture. You will contribute to testing frameworks, APIs, and DevOps workflows while enabling high-quality releases.