Kafka Automation Tester

Location: Cleveland, OH/ Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)Work Type: Full TimeInterview Process: 1 round from Implementation, 2 round (Virtual and in person) from client sideAbout Smart IT Frame:At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.Job SummaryWe are looking for a highly skilled Automation Test Engineer with strong experience in Karate Framework and Kafka-based message testing. The ideal candidate will have hands‐on expertise in validating event‐driven architectures, ensuring data integrity across Kafka pipelines, and working with relational and NoSQL databases. This role requires close collaboration with development, DevOps, and product teams in an Agile environment.Must Have – Automation Test Engineer with strong experience in Karate FrameworkStrong 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#J-18808-Ljbffr