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Position: Lead API Integration and Middleware Tester
Location: SFO-CA Hybrid- two days per week
Type: Contract
Duration: Long Term
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Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced ESB Test Lead to own quality assurance for enterprise integrations, APIs, middleware services, and event-driven workflows. The role combines hands-on test automation with technical leadership, onsite/offshore delivery coordination, and clear communication across product, project, business, and engineering stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
· Own the end-to-end test strategy, planning, estimation, execution, and release-readiness activities for ESB and integration platforms.
· Validate APIs, web services, message flows, data transformations, routing, exception handling, and downstream system integrations.
· Design, build, and maintain scalable automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript.
· Lead functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, negative, and production-validation testing.
· Coordinate onsite and offshore QA teams to deliver sprint commitments across test planning, execution, automation, defect management, and reporting.
· Manage defects, dependencies, test status, quality metrics, and risks; provide clear release recommendations to stakeholders.
· Partner with product owners, project managers, architects, developers, business teams, and support teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
· Drive test automation within CI/CD pipelines and continuously improve coverage, reliability, traceability, and testing efficiency.
Required Qualifications
· 8+ years of software testing experience, including proven experience leading complex integration-testing initiatives.
· Strong hands-on experience testing ESB, middleware, APIs, microservices, and distributed system integrations.
· Hands-on expertise with Playwright and TypeScript, including framework design, test maintenance, and debugging.
· Experience with one or more enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft, IBM App Connect/Integration Bus, TIBCO, Boomi, or a comparable ESB platform.
· Strong knowledge of REST and SOAP services, JSON, XML, message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
· Proficiency with API-testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, REST Assured, or comparable tools.
· Strong SQL skills with experience in backend data validation, log analysis, and root-cause investigation.
· Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
· Strong understanding of Agile delivery, sprint planning, defect management, test metrics, and release processes.
· Proven ability to lead and coordinate onsite/offshore QA teams in a fast-paced delivery environment.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with product, project, business, and technical stakeholders.
· Must be available to work onsite in San Francisco two days per week.
Leadership & Communication Expectations
· Provide concise, audience-appropriate updates on quality, delivery progress, risks, and release readiness.
· Facilitate alignment across onsite and offshore teams, resolve delivery blockers, and ensure clear ownership of sprint test deliverables.
Demonstrate a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented working style when partnering with business and technology teams
