QA Automation Engineering Lead - API Gateway

Description Huntington will not sponsor applicants for this position for immigration benefits, including but not limited to assisting with obtaining work permission for F-1 students, H-1B professionals, O-1 workers, TN workers, E-3 workers, among other immigration statuses. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The Automation QA Lead is responsible for defining, building, and advancing the test automation strategy for Huntington's API Gateway (AGW) platform. This role combines hands-on automation engineering, quality leadership, and platform-level test strategy to ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of enterprise API services. The successful candidate will design and implement modern automation frameworks, develop reusable automated test suites, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and establish quality engineering best practices across the API platform. In addition, the role will support day-to-day testing activities for AGW initiatives, including functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with expertise in API testing, automation architecture, DevOps practices, and quality engineering methodologies.

Duties & Responsibilities Platform Quality Engineering Leadership Own and drive the test automation vision and roadmap for the API Gateway platform. Design and implement scalable automation frameworks supporting API, integration, regression, performance, and security testing. Establish quality engineering standards, testing best practices, and automation governance across the platform. Partner with engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Define quality metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives. Test Automation Engineering Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks and test harnesses for enterprise API services. Build automated API validation suites covering functionality, security, performance, resiliency, and compliance requirements. Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. Implement automated regression suites that enable rapid and reliable platform releases. Create automation solutions that reduce manual testing effort while increasing test coverage and release confidence. API Gateway Testing & Validation Lead testing efforts for API Gateway platform enhancements, upgrades, and new capabilities. Develop automated validation for API proxy configurations, security policies, routing, authentication, authorization, and traffic management controls. Validate enterprise integrations across internal and external consumer applications. Support testing of production fixes, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery exercises. Ensure APIs meet functional, performance, scalability, and security requirements. Day-to-Day Quality Assurance Activities Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning activities. Create and execute test plans, test cases, and automated test scenarios. Perform defect analysis, root cause identification, and validation of remediation efforts. Collaborate closely with developers and product owners to resolve quality issues. Support user acceptance testing and production verification activities as needed. Continuous Improvement Evaluate and introduce modern testing tools, frameworks, and engineering practices. Promote shift-left testing and automation-first quality practices. Mentor engineers and team members on automation development and quality engineering techniques. Drive improvements in release quality, test coverage, deployment reliability, and operational stability. Huntington will not sponsor applicants for this position for immigration benefits, including but not limited to assisting with obtaining work permission for F-1 students, H-1B professionals, O-1 workers, TN workers, E-3