SDET- API/Middleware
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Key highlights
- Rate: $9.50/hr
- Experience: 3-5+ years
- Location: India (Remote)
- Duration: 5 Weeks
- Commitment: 35 Hours per Week
- Key Requirement: gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, and JSON-RPC/REST expertise
Role overview
Welo Global is hiring an SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to bring deep technical rigor to middleware-layer testing. This role requires strong technical expertise across gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, JSON-RPC/REST, proxy-based traffic inspection, and API scripting. The primary responsibility is to observe and reconstruct the network interactions generated by the onboarding UI, including request/response structures, schemas, headers, identifiers, Enums, and client-injected parameters. This is primarily an API/network analysis and evidence-generation role rather than a conventional UI automation or regression-testing role. The resource will produce sanitized network evidence and controlled, benign tracer replay scripts for downstream backend validation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated API test suites covering gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, and JSON-RPC/REST based services
- Export clean, sanitized HAR/network evidence while maintaining traceability between UI actions and corresponding network requests.
- Map relevant schemas, headers, identifiers, routing information, and client-injected parameters.
- Use proxy tools such as Mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, and browser DevTools to inspect, intercept, and validate network traffic between client and server
- Develop and maintain API automation scripts using Python, Postman, and cURL for functional and regression testing
- Analyze protocol-level request/response behavior to identify defects related to serialization, encoding, and transport
- Inspect and validate request payload structure, including system-level headers (e.g., auth tokens, routing identifiers) and internal/hidden parameters, ensuring correct handling under both valid and malformed conditions
- Collaborate with backend and middleware engineers to define testable contracts and edge-case scenarios
- Continuously improve test automation frameworks for reliability, speed, and maintainability
- Document technical findings, automation coverage, and known protocol-level limitations
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise of 3-5+ years with gRPC-Web, Proto3, HTTP/2, and JSON-RPC/REST protocols
- Proficiency with proxy/traffic inspection tools including Mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, and browser DevTools
- Solid scripting/programming skills in Python, with practical use of Postman and cURL for API automation
- Experience designing and maintaining automated test suites for middleware or API-layer services
- Working understanding of API request structure, including headers, auth tokens, and internal/system parameters, and how to test for their correct handling
- Understanding of software engineering practices as applied to test automation (version control, CI integration, code review)
- Strong debugging skills at the network/protocol level
- Ability to work within approved staging/test environments and follow defined data-handling and test-authorization requirements is required.
Nice to have
- Experience analysing browser-generated network traffic and reconstructing API behaviour is strongly preferred.
- Experience with HAR analysis, API schema reconstruction, or controlled API replay is strongly preferred.
Additional details
- Title: SDET - API/Middleware
- Rate: $9.50/hr
- Start Date: 19th October
- Duration: 5 Weeks
- Commitment: 35 Hours per Week
- Location: India (Remote)
- Job Type: Freelance
- Originally posted on Himalayas