QA Automation Engineer – API & Performance Testing

As a 

QA Automation Engineer

, your mission is to drive quality across complex, distributed systems by designing and implementing robust, scalable, and intelligent test automation solutions. You will focus on API testing, system integration, performance validation, and automated quality gates, helping engineering teams identify defects early and deliver reliable, high-quality products with confidence.

• Design and implement scalable

 

test automation frameworks

 covering API, integration, contract, regression, and architectural testing.

• Develop and execute comprehensive

 

API testing strategies

 to validate functionality, integrations, data integrity, reliability, and system contracts.

• Build and maintain automated

 

quality gates within CI/CD pipelines

, ensuring incorrect or non-compliant changes are identified and prevented from reaching production.

• Validate

 

API and data contracts, backward compatibility, schema evolution, and architectural invariants

 across distributed systems.

• Apply

 

property-based testing and mutation testing

 to evaluate test effectiveness, identify gaps, and improve overall test coverage.

• Design and execute

 

performance and scalability testing

, helping identify bottlenecks and potential reliability issues.

• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, DevOps, and data engineering teams to establish and continuously improve quality engineering practices.
• Analyze automation failures, troubleshoot root causes, and continuously improve the reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the testing ecosystem.

6+ years of experience

 in software engineering, QA automation, data engineering, or software quality engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience designing

 

test architectures and automation frameworks

for complex or distributed systems.

Expert-level experience in API testing

 and strong experience with API development and integration.

• Proven experience integrating automated testing and validation into

 

CI/CD pipelines

 and implementing automated quality gates.

• Hands-on experience with

 

property-based testing and mutation testing

, with an understanding of how they improve test effectiveness.

• Experience validating

 

API/data contracts, backward compatibility, schema evolution, and architectural invariants

.

• Practical experience with

 

performance testing

, scalability validation, and identifying application or system bottlenecks.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, QA, and DevOps teams.