API Automation Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 31, 2026.
Role - Quality Assurance Engineer 3
Location - Nahur, Mumbai
5 days work from office
About Us
We are surrounded by the world's leading consumer companies led by technology - Amazon for retail, Airbnb for hospitality, Uber for mobility, Netflix and Spotify for entertainment, etc. Food & Beverage is the only consumer sector where large players are still traditional restaurant companies. At Rebel Foods, we are challenging this status quo as we are building the world's most valuable restaurant company on the internet, superfast.
The opportunity for us is immense due to the exponential growth in the food delivery business worldwide which has helped us build The World's Largest Internet Restaurant Company in the last few years. Rebel Foods current presence in India & UAE with close to 50 brands and 4500+ internet restaurants has been built on The Rebel Operating System.
While for us it is still Day 1, we know we are in the middle of a revolution towards creating never seen before customer-first experiences. We bring you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to disrupt the 500-year-old industry with technology at its core.
We urge you to refer to the below to understand how we are changing the restaurant industry before applying at Rebel Foods.
https://spirit.rebelfoods.com/why-is-rebel-foods-hiring-super-talented-engineers-b88586223ebe
https://spirit.rebelfoods.com/how-to-build-1000-restaurants-in-24-months-the-rebel-method-cb5b0cea4dc8
https://spirit.rebelfoods.com/winning-the-last-frontier-for-consumer-internet-5f2a659c43db
https://spirit.rebelfoods.com/a-unique-take-on-food-tech-dcef8c51ba41
Software Engineering @ Rebel
Software Engineering @ Rebel comprises of most of the components of a customer-centric internet commerce company and problem statements of scalable and distributed systems. We believe in applying engineering excellence and operational excellence in all the areas of compute, storage, network to build & operate efficient systems. While we work on open-source, cloud-managed and enterprise tech stacks in Frontend (web/mobile), Backend (API layers), Caching, Async Processing/Queuing, Databases (SQL,NoSQL), ERP, CRM, Analytics, Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB etc), Data Science (ML) etc, we also work/evaluate on many emerging tech stacks like NLP, AI/IOT, Robotics + Automations, Bots, Voice, Vision computing, Blockchain etc to solve many use cases around different verticals of FoodTech. The teams have built more than 30 different systems in-house to tackle the massive complexity of a multi-brand operation while keeping business metrics supremely efficient and optimized.
Future of Software Engineering @ Rebel
Rebel Engineering function is working on Software + Robotics + Automation to solve the toughest problems in an integrated fashion for our customers and to make their food experiences unique, memorable and delightful & sure. We believe in continuous adoption of emerging technologies to solve customer problems in fast and innovative fashion. Technology and data are the backbone for us to disrupt this industry and build the most loved experiences for customers.
The Role
We are on the lookout for a Lead QA who is passionate about using technology to solve known and unknown business and customer use cases. We want someone who can look at a business problem from the end user's perspective, believes in building and delivering quality products, and can lead others to do the same.
In this role, you will own end-to-end quality for backend and integration services that have no user interface. Around 60–70% of the work involves validating system behaviour through logs and monitoring tools. You will analyse application logs in ELK to confirm that the correct API calls are happening with the right payloads and sequencing, trace requests across microservices using Datadog APM, and debug issues in services hosted on AWS. You will be responsible for test strategy, planning and release sign-off. You will also test third-party integrations for contract correctness, data consistency, retries, timeouts and failure scenarios, prepare regression and sanity suites, and run Linux commands and write SQL queries to verify logs, production issues and data.
On the automation side, you will contribute to, scale and improve our existing API automation frameworks (Java, RestAssured), and design new frameworks from scratch when needed. You should have hands-on knowledge of Jenkins and Docker to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, and be able to plan and run performance tests using JMeter or similar tools. As a lead, you will mentor and guide QA engineers, review their test plans and automation code, define and report quality metrics, and drive adoption of AI-assisted testing practices. We expect you to be a strong problem solver and an out-of-the-box thinker.
Exposure to common technologies such as web technologies, caching, queuing, databases (SQL), storage systems, monitoring tools and cloud technologies is also helpful.
You will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams and will report to the Engineering Manager – QA.
The Rebel Culture
We believe in empowering and growing people to perform the best at their job functions. We follow outcome-oriented, fail-fast iterative & collaborative culture to move fast in building tech solutions. Rebel is not a usual workplace. The following slides will give you a sense of our culture, how Rebel conducts itself and who will be the best fit for our company. We suggest you go through it before making up your mind.
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