Position Tittle: Kafka Tester
Duration: Contract to Hire
Work Location: Cleveland OH or Pittsburgh, PA or Dallas, TX Need local
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 remotes)
Years of Experience: 10+ years applicable experience required overall
Function of the Group: Provides data streaming across the entire bank. We are EDS (Enterprise Data as a Service). We are the middle layer for the entire bank to provide customer demographic data. Any lines of business or any units of the bank who are looking for customer demographic data need to have a streaming service. Either kafka or microservice, and they use these services to fetch data from master data. Our landscape services all units of the bank
Initiatives/Projects : With this group of resources being brought on, some will be used for different initiatives. One of the initiatives we are working on is that we are creating another platform for data that does not fall under master data and that platform we''re building up so we need a few people. We also have a merger and acquisition initiative and since the legacy system is getting decommissioned we have to build that capability and be ready in case a merger comes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Strong understanding of Kafka concepts, including topics, partitions, consumers, producers, and security.
Hands-on required on Oracle and Mongo - able to write queries based on mapping logic.
Must have Message testing experience (JSON, Avro, Kafka etc). Strong in Kafka client configuration and troubleshooting Kafka issues Experience in continuous integration and automated testing.
Able to verify the integrity of data flowing through Kafka, including data serialization/deserialization, and data validation.
Design, Develop and execute test plans and scenarios to verify Kafka functionality, including data production, consumption, and message processing.
Working knowledge and experience of Postman, Git.
Agile ceremonies, X-ray and Jira/Confluence experience.
Design, develop and execute test cases for API''s using Postman and Swagger.
Validate JSON responses with proper response codes, performance and error handling. Perform both manual and automated testing of APIs.
Strong hands-on required on SQL, Oracle and Mongo
Must Have Technical Skills: (Min 8+yrs Of Exp In All Of The Below Skills)
Agile ceremonies
Experience in continuous integration and automated testing (Cucumber/Karate or similar tool experience) Jira/Confluence
KAFKA
Message testing experience (JSON, Avro, Kafka etc).
Postman, Git – API testing, development
Strong hands-on required on SQL, Oracle and Mongo
Swagger – API design, documentation, generation
X-Ray
Screening Questions:
1. Please tell me a summary about your experience with design of APIs and how you have used Swagger and Postman or any other API development/testing tools?