API Testing: What It Actually Means — Reading Real Experience on a Resume

Almost every QA candidate writes "API testing" on their resume. It's one of the most common phrases in the field, and one of the least meaningful, because it can mean anything from "I clicked buttons in Postman once" to "I built an entire automated API test suite." If you can't tell which, you can't screen.This guide fixes that.API Testing: What It Actually Means teaches technical recruiters what API testing really involves, what genuine experience looks like, and how to tell depth from surface on a resume.What's inside:- What an API actually is, and what testing one really means — in plain terms- The huge range hiding behind "I've done API testing"- Manual API testing vs. automated API testing — and what each signals- The tools that matter and what using them tells you- How to tell real, deep API experience from a one-line resume claim- Green flags and red flags in how candidates describe API work- A Practice Session — real recruiter-to-candidate scripts for screening API experienceThis is Volume 5 of the QA Recruiter Guide Series. If you're new to QA, start with the Technical Primer (Volume 1) first.Written by Jonathan Hofler, a Senior AI-Augmented Test Engineer with 10+ years in QA and the creator of QA Smith AI.

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