Role overview

Pay Range: $47.00hr - $52.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Quality Engineering Lead with strong expertise in API testing, test automation, and AI-enabled quality engineering practices. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end quality initiatives, design and implement scalable automation frameworks from scratch, and drive adoption of modern testing approaches leveraging AI and intelligent automation. This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can define quality strategy, mentor teams, and ensure high-quality delivery across enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Quality Engineering activities across multiple programs and agile teams, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
Define and execute QE strategy, automation roadmap, testing standards, and quality governance practices.
Design, develop, and implement scalable API automation frameworks from scratch using modern automation technologies and industry best practices.
Create and maintain reusable automation components, utilities, libraries, and reporting frameworks to improve test efficiency and maintainability.
Design comprehensive API test scenarios and automated test cases covering functional, integration, regression, negative, end-to-end testing, and security validations.
Review business requirements, technical specifications, API contracts, and architecture designs to ensure adequate test coverage and quality controls.
Drive automation-first and shift-left testing practices across project teams.
Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster release cycles.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, and DevOps teams to identify quality risks and mitigation strategies.
Define and track quality metrics, automation coverage, defect leakage, release readiness, and overall quality KPIs.
Lead root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventative quality improvements.

Required Technical Skills - API Testing & Automation:

Strong hands-on experience testing REST APIs, SOAP Services, Microservices, and Event-Driven Architectures.
Expertise in API testing tools such as Postman, Newman, Rest Assured, Karate Framework, ReadyAPI, SoapUI, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
Proven experience building and implementing API automation frameworks from the ground up.
Strong understanding of API lifecycle management and contract validation.