API Tester

Role- API Tester

Location-This is a hybrid role that requires a contractor to work onsite biweekly, Monday-Friday. Contractors must be located in or willing to relocate to Raleigh, NC, Smithfield, RI, or Dallas, TX for consideration

Duration- 6 Months

The Quality Engineer will lead an automation-first testing approach to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and data-processing solutions. This role partners closely with analysts, developers, and business stakeholders to validate functionality, data integrity, and operational readiness while integrating quality practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute risk-based test strategies across applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and end-to-end business processes.
Design, build, and maintain automated tests for functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end validation.
Perform API, data, and SQL-based testing to validate business rules, transformations, reconciliations, and system integrations.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates, metrics, and reporting.
Support performance, resilience, release-readiness, production validation, and root-cause analysis of defects.
Qualifications
Strong experience in software quality engineering and automated testing for enterprise applications and APIs.
Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured, Cucumber, or similar technologies.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
Experience validating REST APIs, JSON/XML payloads, authentication, integrations, and complex data workflows using SQL.
Knowledge of CI/CD practices, Agile delivery, performance testing, nonfunctional testing, and secure software development principles..