Api Tester

**About us**

Trideca is a strategy, data and digital partner for technology transformation across Australia. We have worked with some of Australia's leading enterprise companies (including NAB, Suncorp, Optus, Medibank, AGL and many more), to help transform and empower their businesses.

Working for Trideca, you will be challenged to think outside the box and do things you have not done before. We tackle unique challenges and work on innovative projects for our enterprise clients across various sectors. As part of the Trideca team, you will be able to embrace opportunities for growth with emerging technologies, in a fast-paced, collaborative, and rapidly growing environment across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

**About the role**

We're looking for a **Software Tester** to join a key delivery squad working on life insurance enhancements for a leading financial services organisation. This role will suit someone who is confident with API testing, comfortable working alongside senior engineers, and able to operate effectively in a structured, fast-moving environment.

You'll be joining a project with a solution already in place no framework setup required. Your focus will be on ensuring quality through functional testing, API validation, and supporting a strong delivery cadence.

**Responsibilities**
- Design and execute test plans for RESTful and SOAP APIs, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and non-functional requirements.
- Develop automated API test scripts using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, or similar frameworks.
- Validate API functionality, reliability, performance, and security, including edge cases and error handling.
- Create and maintain test data and mock services to support various testing scenarios.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA team to understand requirements and ensure API quality from early stages.
- Perform regression, integration, and system testing across multiple environments and services.
- Leverage CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated API tests into the development workflow.
- Log, track, and manage defects using tools like JIRA, ensuring timely resolution and retesting.
- Conduct API documentation reviews to ensure accuracy and usability for consumers and stakeholders.

**E**ssential requirements (tech & soft skills)**
- Proven experience as a **Software Tester or QA Engineer** (ideally 6+ years)
- Strong experience with **API testing using Postman**:

- Solid understanding of **functional testing** principles in backend or service-oriented environments
- Ability to work with existing **automation frameworks** no need to build or maintain, but confident in using them for regression and integration testing
- Experience working with **Agile teams** and coordinating across technical and business teams
- Experience in **financial services**, especially **insurance or life products**:

- Familiarity with tools like **JIRA**, **Confluence**, or **TestRail**:

- A working knowledge of **Kafka** or event-driven systems (helpful, not essential)

**Our Values**

**Clients Come First**

We obsess over our clients; they mean everything to us and are central to everything we do. We take the time to understand them, so we can deliver outstanding experiences and create moments of WOW.

**We Celebrate Our Differences**

We are stronger and more successful when we include and appreciate different backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. Diversity helps us be more creative, solve problems better, and achieve more. By valuing everyone's unique contributions, we create a cohesive workplace where everyone can thrive and grow.

**Achieve Greatness Together**

Business is a team sport, and we are here to win. We respect, value, and inspire each other to bring our best to raise the bar. We will high-five you when you've nailed it and have honest discussions when you don't.

**Own Your Space**

We own our space, relationships, and client outcomes. We are fully committed and accountable to ourselves and each other; we deliver what we commit to. We adopt a commercial outlook and expect everyone to think and make decisions like we are the CEO.

**Encourage Open Debate**

We encourage discussion and debate while relentlessly focusing on our overarching vision and purpose in line with our core values; the outcome each and every time is a total commitment to execute what has been decided.

**Have Fun, Go Nuts**

No explanation is required, have fun, go nuts.