Title: API Tester
Duration: 12 months
Location: Plano, TX
Contract Type: W2 contract
Primary Skills API Testing using ReadyAPI / Karate. Kafka-based event-driven systems testing
Description:
Strong experience with API Automation Testing using ReadyAPI and/or Karate
Design, develop, and maintain API automation frameworks using ReadyAPI and/or Karate.
Good knowledge of Apache Kafka and event-driven architecture testing
Validate Kafka-based event-driven systems, including producers, consumers, and message flows.
Test message formats, topics, partitions, offsets, and fault scenarios.
Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud services
Experience integrating automation tests with CI/CD pipelines
Solid understanding of REST APIs, JSON, XML, HTTP methods, and status codes
Experience with version control systems (Git)
Ensure adherence to QA best practices, standards, and processes.
Continuously improve automation frameworks, test coverage, and execution efficiency.
Provide test metrics, reports, and quality status to stakeholders.
Perform functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing for RESTful APIs.
Validate API contracts, schemas, payloads, and error handling.
Ensure automation coverage aligns with business and technical requirements.