API Automation — 1:1 Expert Mentoring with Prasanth Karuppaiya

Go beyond sending API requests — learn how to build maintainable API automation.

This 1:1 session is designed for QA Engineers, SDETs and developers who want to improve their API testing and automation skills or solve problems in an existing framework.

What we can cover

API Testing Fundamentals

• REST API concepts
• HTTP methods
• Request & response
• Headers
• Query and path parameters
• Status codes
• JSON / XML

API Testing

• GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
• Request body validation
• Response validation
• JSON schema validation
• Headers and cookies
• Negative testing
• Boundary and edge cases

Authentication

• Basic authentication
• Bearer tokens
• OAuth
• JWT
• Session-based authentication
• Token management

API Automation

• REST Assured
• Java
• TestNG / JUnit
• Request specifications
• Response specifications
• Reusable API clients
• Serialization / deserialization
• Data-driven API testing

Framework & CI/CD

• API automation framework architecture
• Environment management
• Test data management
• Reporting
• Parallel execution
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions

Practical Debugging

• Why an API test fails
• Understanding 4xx / 5xx responses
• Debugging request/response issues
• Integrating API and UI automation

Bring your API, Postman collection, framework, or error and we can work through it together.

Invitee Question

What would you like to achieve from this API automation session?

Examples:

Learn API testing / REST Assured / Debug my framework / Build API automation / Interview preparation / API + UI integration