Kafka

Position: QA Tester - Kafka Message testing Location: Pittsburgh PA, Cleveland OH, Birmingham AL and Dallas, TX (3 days in office) Duration: 3+ months to hire on W2 Contract to Hire, W2 Roles and Responsibilities: • Strong understanding of Kafka concepts, including topics, partitions, consumers, producers, and security. • Hands-on required on Oracle and Mongo - able to write queries based on mapping logic • Must have Message testing experience (JSON, Avro, Kafka etc). • Strong in Kafka client configuration and troubleshooting Kafka issues • Experience in continuous integration and automated testing. • Able to verify the integrity of data flowing through Kafka, including data serialization/deserialization, and data validation. • Design, Develop and execute test plans and scenarios to verify Kafka functionality, including data production, consumption, and message processing. • Working knowledge and experience of Postman, Git. • Agile ceremonies, X-ray and Jira/Confluence experience • Design, develop and execute test cases for API's using Postman and Swagger • Validate JSON responses with proper response codes, performance and error handling • Perform both manual and automated testing of APIs • Strong hands-on required on SQL, Oracle and Mongo Must Have Skills: • KAFKA Message testing experience (JSON, Avro, Kafka etc). • Experience in continuous integration and automated testing (Cucumber/Karate or similar tool experience) • Swagger – API design, documentation, generation Postman • Git – API testing, development • SQL • Oracle • Mongo • X-ray • Jira/Confluence • Strong knowledge of API testing disciplines and methodologies. • Agile ceremonies Flex Skills/Nice to Have: • SOAP API Education/Certifications: • Bachelors in related technology field preferred, but will consider experience in lieu of education Interview Process: • 1st round video – 30 min to 1 hour, with 2-3 members from their respective teams and possibly hiring manager if can join 2nd round – optional, if needed