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Job Title: QA Automation Engineer (Kafka, API & Microservices Testing)
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)
Rate: $38/hr On W2 (No C2C )
Job Summary
Client is seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Kafka testing, API automation, Microservices validation, and backend testing. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing scalable automation frameworks, validating event-driven architectures, and ensuring quality across distributed systems. This role requires close collaboration with development, DevOps, and business teams within an Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute automated test suites for APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications.
- Validate Kafka producer/consumer workflows and message integrity across distributed systems.
- Perform API testing using REST Assured, Karate Framework, Postman, Swagger, and SoapUI.
- Build and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, and Karate.
- Execute functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing activities.
- Validate JSON/XML payloads and perform backend data verification.
- Conduct database testing across Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and DB2 environments.
- Integrate automated tests within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, GitHub/GitLab.
- Analyze logs and troubleshoot issues using Splunk and monitoring tools.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, requirement reviews, defect management, and test planning.
Required Skills
Automation & Testing
- Java Automation
- Selenium WebDriver
- Cucumber BDD
- Karate Framework
- REST Assured
- API Automation Testing
Kafka & Microservices
- Kafka Producer/Consumer Validation
- Event-Driven Architecture Testing
- Microservices Testing
- Message Queue Validation
API & Backend Testing
- REST API Testing
- Postman
- Swagger
- SoapUI
- JSON/XML Validation
Database Testing
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- DB2
- Advanced SQL Queries
DevOps & Agile
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Git/GitHub/GitLab
- Jira
- Confluence
- Agile/Scrum
Salary : $38