SDET (Python) API & Performance Test Automation

Role Name :SDET (Python) API & Performance Test Automation
Location: Foster City, CA ( Onsite ) / Local Candidates only
Client: Zoox Inc.
Rate: $45/hr
Experience: 6 8 Years

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced SDET with strong Python programming skills and hands-on expertise in API automation, performance testing, and test framework development. The ideal candidate will have experience validating REST APIs, building reusable automation frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and testing distributed systems and Kafka consumers.

Required Skills:

• 6 8 years of experience in SDET, test automation, or quality engineering.

• Strong Python programming skills, including experience with FastAPI.

• Hands-on experience with Pytest, unit testing, mocking, and reusable automation frameworks.

• Strong REST API automation and testing experience.

• Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger and JSON Schema validation.

• Hands-on experience with k6 and JavaScript for API functional and load testing.

• Experience with test-data parameterization, dynamic data generation, and API response correlation.

• Experience designing positive/negative scenarios, boundary cases, end-to-end API journeys, contract tests, and compatibility tests.

• CI/CD pipeline integration and Git-based test-asset versioning.

• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Experience with smoke, regression, and synthetic test suites.

• Knowledge of performance, load, stress, and endurance testing.

• Experience validating deployments during canary rollouts and analyzing test execution metrics and bottlenecks.

• Kafka integration testing, particularly Kafka consumer validation.

• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.

Tools & Technologies:
Python, Pytest, FastAPI, REST APIs, k6, JavaScript, Playwright, JMeter, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON Schema, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Git, CI/CD, Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus.

Client Mandatory Skills: Python, SDET, API automation testing, Pytest, REST API, mocking, reusable test frameworks, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON Schema validation, k6, JavaScript, API functional testing, load testing, test-data parameterization, CI/CD, Git, Kafka consumer testing, smoke testing, regression testing, performance testing, canary rollout validation.

Preferred / Additional Skills: FastAPI, Playwright, JMeter, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus.