Senior Automation Engineer - API & Microservice Testing

Veriipro; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro in Washington, DC, is seeking an experienced automation engineer to design, build, and maintain robust UI/API testing frameworks using Java and TypeScript. You will validate microservices, REST APIs, and RBAC while collaborating with engineering to elevate release quality.

You will implement data validation with SQL, test event-driven architectures, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub, or Bitbucket, applying strong debugging and problem-solving skills to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of software testing experience with 5+ years focused on enterprise test automation.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and TypeScript.
• Experience testing microservices architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with backend/data validation.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust automation frameworks for UI and API testing using Java and TypeScript.
• Develop automated validation for microservices, REST APIs, authentication/authorization flows, and role-based access controls.
• Perform database validation using SQL across relational and NoSQL databases to ensure data integrity, consistency, and accurate state transitions.
• Test event-driven architectures and message-based integrations using Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Create automation for resiliency scenarios including retries, failure recovery, idempotency, and system fault handling.
• Execute performance and load testing to validate system scalability under peak conditions.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
• Analyze logs, monitoring data, and system telemetry using tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and ELK/EFK to troubleshoot issues.
• Partner with engineering teams to define quality standards, automation strategies, and release quality gates.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Test automation

SQL

Agile development

Distributed systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

REST-assured

Karate

Jenkins

GitHub

Bitbucket

Kafka

Job description

Veriipro in Washington, DC, is seeking an experienced automation engineer to design, build, and maintain robust UI/API testing frameworks using Java and TypeScript. You will validate microservices, REST APIs, and RBAC while collaborating with engineering to elevate release quality.

You will implement data validation with SQL, test event-driven architectures, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub, or Bitbucket, applying strong debugging and problem-solving skills to ensure