Senior AQA Engineer - API Automation

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain API test suites in Python with pytest and the requests
• Validate responses deeply: schemas, business rules, data accuracy across stocks, bonds and funds, and consistency between endpoints and environments
• Build reusable framework parts: API clients, fixtures, data f actories, markers and shared assertions
• Cover functional, negative, contract and regression scenarios, including auth and error handling
• Keep suites stable and f ast in Jenkins CI, report through Allure, and investigate failures to the root cause
• Use AI tools (Claude, Cursor , Copilot, AI agents or MCP) to generate tests from specs, analyze f ailures and speed up maintenance, and share what works with the team
• Work inside a dev team: review API designs and specs, define acceptance criteria, and close coverage gaps
• Mentor other QA engineers and review their code

Languages

Required

• 5+ years in test automation, at least 3 of them writing automation in Python with pytest (fixtures, parametrization, markers, conftest structure)
• Strong hands-on experience with the requests library and REST APIs: HTTP methods, headers, auth (tokens, OAuth), JSON parsing and schema validation
• Practical experience or solid knowledge of using AI tools in test automation (test generation, code review , debugging, AI agents or MCP)
• Experience designing a maintainable API test framework, not only writing test cases
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins or similar) and Git workflows (branches, PRs, code review)

Nice to have

• Good English, written and spoken
• Experience testing AI or LLM-based APIs (non-deterministic output, evaluation approaches)
• SQL and data validation against a database
• Allure reporting, pytest-xdist, Docker
• Performance or load testing (Locust, k6 or similar)
• Basic Playwright or UI automation knowledge
• Background in fintech or investment data

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