QE Lead - API Testing
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Original job description
The ideal candidate has strong hands-on API testing expertise and experience building scalable automation frameworks from scratch.
What You Bring
- Strong experience testing REST APIs, SOAP services, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Expertise in Postman, Newman, REST Assured, Karate, ReadyAPI, SoapUI, and Swagger/OpenAPI
- Proven experience building API automation frameworks from the ground up
- Strong understanding of API lifecycle management and contract validation
- Experience with functional, integration, regression, negative, end-to-end, and security testing
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, continuous testing, and shift-left practices
- Experience defining QE strategy, automation roadmaps, testing standards, and quality metrics
- Strong leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and root cause analysis skills
- Lead Quality Engineering across multiple programs and Agile teams
- Define QE strategy, automation roadmaps, and quality governance
- Build reusable API automation frameworks, components, and reporting utilities
- Review requirements, API contracts, and architecture to ensure test coverage
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Track automation coverage, defect leakage, release readiness, and quality KPIs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage quality risks
- Lead root cause analysis and implement preventive improvements
- Experience with AI-enabled quality engineering and intelligent test automation
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Responsibilities
Lead Quality Engineering initiatives across programs and Agile teams, defining strategy, automation roadmaps, governance, and quality metrics. Build reusable API automation frameworks, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, assess quality risks and release readiness, and lead root cause analysis and preventive improvements.
Requirements
Requires strong hands-on experience testing REST APIs, SOAP services, microservices, and event-driven architectures, along with expertise in API testing tools and building automation frameworks from scratch. Candidates should understand API lifecycle management, contract validation, varied testing approaches, CI/CD and shift-left practices, and bring leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and root cause analysis skills.
Skills
- API Testing
- API Automation
- REST APIs
- SOAP Services
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architectures
- Postman
- Newman
- REST Assured
- Karate
- ReadyAPI
- SoapUI
- Swagger/OpenAPI
- API Automation Frameworks
- CI/CD
- Quality Engineering
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- Software
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Quality Engineering
- API Testing
- API Automation
- REST APIs
- SOAP
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architectures
- Postman
- Newman
- REST Assured
- Karate
- ReadyAPI
- SoapUI
- Swagger/OpenAPI
- API Lifecycle Management
- Contract Validation
- Functional Testing
- Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- Negative Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Security Testing
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Continuous Testing
- Shift-Left Testing
- Agile
- Automation Roadmaps
- Quality Metrics
- Root Cause Analysis
- AI-Enabled Testing