Automation QA Engineer: API & Microservices

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments invites a skilled Test Automation Engineer to join our Johannesburg-based team. You will bring 3+ years of experience in test automation and microservices, crafting robust automated tests for RESTful APIs and web services.

You will work with Java, Git, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, and Atlassian tools (Jira/Confluence) to build reliable CI/CD pipelines, verify data through SQL and XML validation, and report progress to stakeholders with clarity and precision.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Test Automation and micro services.
• Strong automated testing experience with Git, JMeter and Postman.
• Solid understanding of test processes: requirement analysis, test scenario design, test case creation, test scripting and status reporting to stakeholders for testing services.
• Strong in validation content from XML, databases and flat files using scripts.
• Experience in writing tests in JAVA
• Experience of testing RESTful APIs
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as confluence and JIRA
• Experience working with Jenkins to build CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with Database and SQL for data validation (able to extract data and write data queries)
• Strong hands-on experience with automation of API automation frameworks
• Experience in testing Webservices (Proxy/Business)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skills in Sellenium Scripting, Execution and Reporting

Responsibilities

• Supports applications with an understanding of system integration, test planning, scripting and troubleshooting.
• Reviews project proposal, evaluates alternatives, provides estimates and makes recommendations.
• Identifies potential process improvement areas and suggests options and recommends approaches

Skills

Test Automation

Microservices

Java

RESTful APIs testing

Scripting

CI/CD

Git

JMeter

Postman

SQL

XML validation

Jenkins

JIRA/Confluence

Selenium

Communication

Tools

Git

JMeter

Postman

Confluence

JIRA

Jenkins

Selenium

Job description

Boardroom Appointments invites a skilled Test Automation Engineer to join our Johannesburg-based team. You will bring 3+ years of experience in test automation and microservices, crafting robust automated tests for RESTful APIs and web services.

You will work with Java, Git, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, and Atlassian tools (Jira/Confluence) to build reliable CI/CD pipelines, verify data through SQL and XML validation, and report progress to stakeholders with clarity and precision.