Senior Test Analyst - API Tester

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Analyst to support a large-scale API Management migration from Apigee to Kong APIM. This role is critical to ensuring API quality, security and performance throughout the migration lifecycle with a strong focus on validating functional parity, nonfunctional requirements and consumer impact.

Responsibilities

• Analyse existing Apigee API proxies and policies to define test scenarios for Kong APIM equivalents;
• Design and execute functional integration and regression testing for migrated APIs;
• Validate API contracts request and response transformations, headers, error handling and versioning;
• Test security controls including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS and API key authentication;
• Validate traffic management policies such as rate limiting, throttling, quotas and retries;
• Conduct non functional testing including performance, scalability and resilience;
• Support parallel run cutover and go live testing to minimise service disruption;
• Manage defects end to end working closely with development and platform teams;
• Produce clear test evidence reports and quality metrics to support release decisions.

Certifications Required

ISTQB

Cog2025