Quality Assurance Automation Lead

At Value Momentum’s Technology Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas:
Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise.

We are looking for a detail-oriented Automation QA Lead with a strong background in API testing to join our fast-paced technology team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts for our RESTful and/or SOAP APIs. You will work closely with cross-functional teams—developers, product managers, Dev Ops, and other QA engineers—to ensure our software meets the highest quality standards.

• Collaborate with product owners and development teams to understand business requirements and acceptance criteria for API-related features.
• Contribute to defining test strategies, including both manual and automated approaches, to effectively validate APIs.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation test suites for API testing using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar.
• Build automated frameworks to streamline testing, reduce manual overhead, and ensure consistency.
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, etc.).
• Execute manual and automated tests, analyze results, and identify root causes of defects.
• Track and report defects using bug-tracking tools like JIRA, ensuring defects are assigned to the correct teams and resolved in a timely manner.
• Provide clear and concise test results, metrics, and status updates to stakeholders.
• Participate in code reviews of test scripts and mentor team members on best practices for test automation.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure APIs are designed for testability and reliability.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new tools or processes to improve test coverage, reliability, and speed.

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance or Test Automation, particularly with API-focused testing.
• Solid background in designing and implementing automated frameworks for API testing (e.g., Postman, REST Assured, Karate, SoapUI, or similar tools).
• Familiarity with web technologies, RESTful/SOAP protocols, JSON/XML structures, and API design principles.
• P&C Insurance, API Testing with tools like postman and Automation