Senior QA Automation Engineer for APIs & Microservices

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts for API services and microservices in a fast-paced environment. The role requires 4+ years' hands-on testing experience, strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, Jenkins CI/CD, Git, JMeter, and Postman, plus solid SQL skills and attention to detail.

You will collaborate with development teams, participate in test planning, and contribute to improving testing processes

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Test Automation.
• Experience with API testing and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of test processes and scripting.
• Experience in writing tests in JAVA.

Responsibilities

• To create, debug, verify, maintain, and update technical test scripts to run API testing.
• Is responsible for testing the functionality of a system designed to address business requirements to prevent errors/defects in the live system through the implementation of change control and improvement.
• 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.
• Strong automated testing experience with good knowledge of tools including 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 service.
• 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 Selenium Scripting, Execution and Reporting.

Skills

Test Automation

Microservices

Programming languages

System Design

API testing

RESTful APIs

Selenium

Git

JMeter

Postman

Jenkins

SQL

XML

REST API testing

Tools

Git

JMeter

Postman

Confluence

JIRA

Jenkins

SQL

Selenium

XML

REST API testing

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts for API services and microservices in a fast-paced environment. The role requires 4+ years' hands-on testing experience, strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, Jenkins CI/CD, Git, JMeter, and Postman, plus solid SQL skills and attention to detail.

You will collaborate with development teams, participate in test planning, and contribute to improving testing processes