Senior API QA Automation Lead

Huntington National Bank; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave and PTO

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. You will lead quality engineering, design scalable automation frameworks, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing API services.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software quality assurance, hands-on automation framework design, and strong leadership in Agile/DevOps environments.

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.
• 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.

Skills

API testing

Automation architecture

DevOps practices

Quality leadership

Agile

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Postman

Karate

Rest Assured

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Automation QA Lead to define and advance the test automation strategy for the API Gateway platform. You will lead quality engineering, design scalable automation frameworks, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing API services.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software quality assurance, hands-on automation framework design, and strong leadership in Agile/DevOps environments.