• Architect API‑first contract‑testing frameworks that validate APIM routing, compatibility, and strangled services. 

• Integrate smoke, regression, and reliability tests directly into CI/CD pipelines with automated gating. 

• Design offline, reconnect, and degraded‑network scenario suits ensuring robust client and backend behavior. 

• Implement data‑integrity validation frameworks, reconciliation checks, and pre‑/post‑deployment verification. 

• Partner with developers to embed testability patterns—telemetry hooks, mocks/stubs, and fault‑injection points. 

• Define release‑readiness criteria grounded in reliability of metrics, automated validation, and service‑level health. 

• Continuously evolving automation tooling, frameworks, and quality accelerators adopted across modernization teams. 

• Drive a culture of reliability engineering through documentation, training, and cross‑team technical leadership. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5+ years automation engineering experience focused on API‑first or distributed systems. 

• Hands-on experience into Manual & Automation testing transforming experience

• Expertise integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with gating and quality enforcement. 

• Hands‑on experience building test frameworks supporting cloud‑native or modernized architectures. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with consumer‑driven contract testing (CDC) frameworks. 

• Background in performance, resilience, or chaos‑testing patterns. 

• Familiarity with event‑driven validation, async workflow testing, or distributed‑state consistency checks.