Senior API Automation Engineer (On-site, SLC)

Apex Systems; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior SDET to design, implement, and scale automated testing across critical financial API platforms. The role focuses on API automation, contract testing, and CI/CD quality gates, with hands-on coding in modern languages and deep knowledge of REST, authentication, and distributed systems.

The candidate will drive automated test strategies for high-volume workflows, collaborate with developers and DevOps, and apply AI-assisted techniques to improve coverage and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software quality engineering or SDET experience.
• Experience building automated API/test frameworks for backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable API and integration test automation frameworks.
• Define and implement CI/CD quality gates for PRs, merges and releases.
• Create formal test plans for major releases and partner integrations.
• Develop automated tests for REST APIs, backend services, and data validation.
• Establish contract testing, mocking, and service virtualization practices.
• Implement load, performance, and resiliency testing for high-volume APIs.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to generate tests and expand edge-case coverage.
• Build release-readiness dashboards and quality metrics.

Skills

API test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Programming languages

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

Postman

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Pact

WireMock

JMeter

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior SDET to design, implement, and scale automated testing across critical financial API platforms. The role focuses on API automation, contract testing, and CI/CD quality gates, with hands-on coding in modern languages and deep knowledge of REST, authentication, and distributed systems.

The candidate will drive automated test strategies for high-volume workflows, collaborate with developers and DevOps, and apply AI-assisted techniques to improve coverage and