API Test Lead

The API Test Lead will lead the Quality Engineering workstream for Costco's Global Membership Platform modernization, covering migration-focused validation of up to 257 in-scope APIs and repositories across planned migration waves.

The role will serve as the primary testing point of contact for Costco QE, architects, application teams, Apigee teams, platform teams and the offshore QE team.

The role will ensure testing remains aligned to the agreed SOW boundaries, including API integration testing, API-level regression check, and limited API performance testing.

The role is accountable for test governance, scope alignment, readiness reviews, defect governance, quality reporting and production-readiness recommendations.

Test Strategy and Planning:

Define and maintain the API testing strategy, wave-level test plan, entry/exit criteria, quality gates and acceptance approach.

Confirm the approved testing baseline, including API inventory, dependencies, environments, test data,complexity distribution and performance-test candidates.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Onshore Governance:

Act as the customer-facing QE lead and primary liaison with Costco QE, product owners, architects, platform teams and release stakeholders during North America business hours.

Facilitate test-readiness, defect-triage, risk-review, Go/No-Go and production-readiness discussions and Coordinate timely clarification

Risk and Scope Management:

Manage testing risks associated with API contract changes, shared dependencies etc.

Ensure out of scope modules are not absorbed into the baseline without approved Change Control.

Assess testing impacts arising from scope clarification, client decisions and changes to requirement

Quality and Defect Governance:

Own test status, defect ageing, severity alignment, retest priorities, residual-risk reporting and escalation.

Review execution evidence, test results, defect summaries and production-readiness packs before submission to Costco.

Ensure pre-existing defects, external-system issues and data-quality issues are identified and reported with clear ownership.

Provide quality-based recommendations for migration-wave progression

Reporting and Documentation:

Prepare concise customer-facing QE dashboards, risks, decisions, dependencies, test progress and readiness updates.

Maintain traceability across approved scope, test conditions, execution evidence, defects and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field preferred.

10+ years of Quality Engineering experience, including API, integration or cloud-modernization testing.

Proven experience leading customer-facing QE governance for large, multi-team migration or transformation programs.

Experience with REST APIs, microservices, Azure, AKS, APIM or Apigee, CI/CD and production-release governance.

Knowledge of JWT, OAuth 2.0, Entra ID, RBAC and API security validation.

Experience defining API performance-test scope, NFRs and readiness criteria is preferred.

Skills:

Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing communication skills.

Ability to translate technical risks into clear delivery, commercial and quality impacts.

Strong test strategy, estimation, defect governance and release-readiness capabilities.

Excellent analytical, reporting, facilitation and decision-making skills.

Self-starter with strong ownership, attention to detail and a collaborative approach.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $36.98/hour - $57.79/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.