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A prestigious company is on the search for a Restful API Tester. This is a contract to hire, hybrid (3 days remote, 2 days onsite) position. This quality assurance engineer will focus on Restful APIs and will have experience in a C# or Java environment. They will do manual and automation regression testing. They MUST have ReadyAPI and SQL skills.

Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements, functional specifications, use cases, design, and architecture documents to create effective, value-add test plans.
• Identify issues in data, application configurations and screen designs, report and oversee issue resolution.
• Become an expert in business rules, system functionality and architecture.
• Plan and execute Manual, Functional, and Regression test suite.
• Independently develop, modify, and execute test plans based on requirements and design documents.
• Identify, report and track defects and User Experience issues through a system of record.
• Collaborate with external teams on root cause analysis.
• Ensuring proper traceability from requirements to test artifacts.
• Actively participate in requirements and code reviews.
• Actively participate and drive improvements in Agile Scrum delivery.
• Be a thought leader in the test design and execution arena (manual and automated).
• Creation and input of test data, either manually or by using tools, programs, or masked production data to execute test cases.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area.
• Hands-on experience in Planning and Manual test execution.
• Experience in Regression Test Strategies, Regression suite maintenance and execution.
• Hands-on experience with Automated Testing tools such as Selenium, TestComplete, UFT etc
• Hands-on experience using SQL queries for results validation and data mining.
• At least 3-5 years of professional experience on a variety of projects in Test Strategy, Test Design, Test Execution analysis & reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, ALM, TFS/ADO or similar systems of record.
• Understanding of Development and Test cycles, including respective best practices.
• Hands-on experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in API testing is a must
• Experience developing and maintaining an APITest automation framework.
• Experience developing and maintaining a Selenium test framework that integrates with APIs
• Experience with ReadyAPIs, strong SQL skills