API QA: market
An API QA Engineer tests services at the API level: writes automated tests for requests and responses, contracts and integration scenarios, and catches defects before they reach the UI. We currently track 45 open positions for this role, 42 of them fresh. The baseline is HTTP, REST and JSON, Postman for manual checks, automated tests in Java (REST Assured), Python (pytest, requests) or TypeScript (Playwright), SQL for data checks and running tests in CI. By co-occurrence in requirements, Postman, Playwright, Java and TypeScript appear most often. 68% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the API QA Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The API QA market currently has 45 open roles, 42 of them freshly observed.
68% of API QA Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 2 of 45 jobs; remote share from 37 with a stated format; 42 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many API QA postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 32
New sources connected: 11 May +3 · 18 May +1 · 1 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +3 · 29 Jun +3 · 6 Jul +2 · 13 Jul +1 · 20 Jul +2 · 27 Jul +1 · 3 Aug +1 · 17 Aug +2 · 24 Aug +1 · 7 Sept +3 · 21 Sept +2 · 28 Sept +1 · 5 Oct +2 · 12 Oct +3
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Demand and observed supply: API QA
| Open demand | 45 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: API QA
The range histogram for API QA Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
The chart will appear once enough observations accumulate for this breakdown.
Demand geography: API QA
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 7 |
| IN | 5 |
| ES | 3 |
| DE | 3 |
| SG | 2 |
| RU | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| GB | 2 |
| FR | 2 |
| NL | 2 |
The top country for API QA Engineer demand is Poland (7 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In API QA Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Postman, Playwright, Java and TypeScript.
Demand by grade: API QA
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 11 |
| middle | 6 |
| lead | 1 |
| junior | 1 |
Senior-and-above is about 63% of 19 API QA Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: API QA
Demand is spread across 25 employers. The largest accounts for 19.1%, the top ten for 64.3%; the remaining 35.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 19.1% |
| top-3 | 42.9% |
| top-10 | 64.3% |
| long tail | 35.7% |
API QA Engineer openings come from 25 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 17 sources; the largest accounts for 17.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
API QA Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: API QA
- Software Engineer I ( 2-4 years of expertise in Java, Selenium, BDD, Cucumber, API Testing ) Pune
- QA Engineer (Manual & API Testing) · PL
- Software Testing Engineer(API Testing, Python, Azure DevOps) · SG
- QA Automation Engineer (Playwright | Java | Python I API Testing) (K/M) · RU
- QA Automation Engineer (Playwright | Java | Python | API Testing) · PL
- QA Engineer (Python / UiPath / API testing / GenAI) · PL
- Software Test Engineer (Java, Playwright/ Selenium, API testing) · IN
- Senior Quality Engineer Functional and API Testing Nicosia · CY
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 9.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the API QA Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an API QA Engineer do?
An API QA Engineer tests services at the API level: writes automated tests for requests and responses, contracts and integration scenarios, and catches defects before they reach the UI.
Which skills do API QA Engineer postings require?
The baseline is HTTP, REST and JSON, Postman for manual checks, automated tests in Java (REST Assured), Python (pytest, requests) or TypeScript (Playwright), SQL for data checks and running tests in CI. In the current slice, Postman, Playwright, Java and TypeScript appear in requirements most often.
Why test the API rather than only the UI?
API tests are faster and more stable than browser tests and find business-logic defects earlier; UI tests are kept for the key user journeys.
How remote-friendly are API QA Engineer jobs?
68% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 45 open positions.
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