Automation Test Engineer

Lead API Engineer - IND

Engineering - Hyderabad, Telangana

About Gradera

At Gradera, we’re defining a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ (SoS™) — a governed blend of human expertise and digital intelligence that transforms how enterprises operate.

Our mission is to build intelligent digital workers that augment teams and automate work across the value chain, helping organizations become more efficient, agile, and resilient.

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every engagement is tailored to the unique needs of each enterprise — grounded in governance, security, and reliability. By aligning technology with strategy, we empower our clients to achieve measurable outcomes and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Lead – API Engineer

Overview

Key Responsibilities

•Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the API engineering team

•Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of API architecture and backend services

•Champion API-first development, ensuring clear contracts and comprehensive documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)

•Lead the implementations of APIs conforming to all NFRs including security, scalability, and performance.

•Ensure robust authentication, authorization, and data protection for all endpoints

•Drive adoption of best practices in API design, versioning, and integration

•Optimize API performance for low-latency, high-frequency interactions

•Oversee observability, monitoring, and alerting for all APIs and backend services

•Collaborate closely with product, UI, and runtime teams to deliver integrated solutions

•Collaborate with the SDET to ensure comprehensive test coverage and effective test data creation

•Lead the adoption of modern API tools, frameworks, and best practices

•Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met

•Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team

•Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development

Core Qualities & Skills

•Proven experience leading API or backend engineering teams and delivering complex API projects

•Deep expertise in API architecture, design, and implementation (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC etc.)

•Strong programming skills in relevant backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)

•Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE, define fine-grained access controls using ReBAC)

•Experience with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Use Case, JSON Schemas, etc.)

•Familiarity with data serialization with Protofbuf

•Experience with some API gateway is a must

•Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and reliability for APIs

•Experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for backend services

•Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines

•Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies

•System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs

•Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities

•Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change

•Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices

Preferred Qualifications

•7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role

•Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable API systems

•Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)

•Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers

•Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams

Highly Desirable

•Experience with API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong, Apigee) and service mesh patterns (e.g., Istio)

•Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (pub/sub, callbacks, Kafka, etc.)

•Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and automated provisioning (e.g., Terraform)

•Experience building developer portals and self-service onboarding for APIs

•Experience with API Gateways (Apache APISIX, KrakenD, …)

•Ability to perform API Domain Modelling with a strong product orientation, aligning technical design with user and business needs

•Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence

•Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams

Success Metrics

•API response time (median and p95)

•Uptime and reliability of critical services

•Test coverage for API and backend logic

•Developer velocity and time from API design to production

•Time to First Prototype (TTFP)

•Integration lead time for API consumers

•Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment

•Team growth, engagement, and retention

•Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration

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🔹 What we’re looking for:

✔ Strong technical knowledge of MERN Stack (Node.js, React.js, MongoDB, Express.js)

✔ Experience in Pre-Sales – handling leads & converting them into clients

✔ Confident in client meetings, requirement gathering & technical discussions

✔ Ability to prepare SRS documents, estimate timelines & initiate projects independently

✔ Experience in leading development teams and managing deliveries

✔ Good understanding of System Architecture & CI/CD pipelines

✔ Fluent English communication

✔ Ownership mindset & leadership skills

🔹 Role Highlights:

• Client handling & technical consultations

• Project estimation, planning & execution

• Team leadership & delivery management

• Business support through pre-sales activities

📍 Immediate Joiners Preferred

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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have hands-on experience writing insight driven B2B content for landing pages, linkedIn posts or campaigns

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Ideally, you're a person who loves performing test automation, including the creation & management of test scenarios, documentation, and coding tests. You will help drive the design & building of E2E test automation and frameworks for our React. js-based hybrid mobile application. Moreover, you will find bottlenecks & thresholds in existing code with the help of automation tools.

Requirements:

• Prior experience with Appium or other automated mobile testing technologies.
• Knowledge of front-end/UI testing is highly desired.
• Hands-on experience on more of TestNG, JUnit, Spring Test, etc.
• Experience in working with Agile + DevOps' process management methodology.
• Experience in using one or more of Rest Assured, Super Test, Postman, and Swagger.
• Experience in using mocking frameworks.
• Experience in using API testing frameworks.
• Experience in Performance testing frameworks and the ability to design performance tests.
• Experience in some scripting languages, like Shell, Python, etc.

Good to have would be AWS Architect Certification.

Must Have

• NodeJS / TypeScript experience 3+ years
• AWS experience 3+ years using AWS SDK
• Lamba
• API Gateway
• Event based architecture like Kinesis, MSK (Kafka)
• Database Sql / NoSql

Considered a plus:

• Frontend development React / Angular
• AWS IoT Core, Kafka, Kinesis
• Elastic Search

Should have experience in Device Provisioning / Device management with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

7+ years of experience with Design, development & architecture.

• Experience in software development with minimum 3 plus years of architecture experience.
• Experience in Core JAVA 8
• Experience in Java J2EE, Microservices
• Experience in Java - Spring, Java - SpringBoot, GCP , Hibernate,JDBC
• Experience in Multi-threading, Performance and Scaling is a plus
• Have used the RDBMS and NoSQL databases like MySQL/Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J Risk for production ready software’s
• Cloud Native application design experience is a plus
• CICD – Release Pipeline experience
• Experience in application of principles of Architecture Design
• Experience building large scale, high performance distributed systems
• Strong understanding of modern development techniques and processes such as Dev Ops /Cloud
• Promoter of Agile/Scrum, TDD and CI/CD best practices
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• Interacts with Delivery managers and/or users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
• Participates in software design meetings and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements.
• Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements.
• Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications using current programming languages and technologies.
• Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Trains and communicates with internal Client Training, Client Relationship and Sales teams on systems application.
• May be responsible for developing or executing project plans, budgets and schedules and for documenting work and results.
• May deliver informational and decision-seeking presentations to technical and business groups to internal and/or external audiences.

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• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.