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API Test Automation Suite. @api-test-automation

Deliverydelivery · outcome-driven-sprints · qa · test-automationScrums.com● available now
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Last review 2026-08-14

01

What you get

the numbers that matter
Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

Automate endpoint, contract, authentication, negative, and regression tests for a defined API surface.

02

How this operator works

every way of working, already decided
A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

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Overview

APIs break quietly: a changed field, a loosened permission, an error path nobody retested. This sprint automates tests for a defined API surface — endpoint behavior, contract and schema checks, authentication and authorization, negative and abuse cases — so breaking changes surface in CI, not in a partner integration.

Tests are data-driven and environment-aware, runnable locally and in the pipeline. The finish state: the agreed surface covered, contract checks guarding responses, and a regression suite that runs on every change.

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What's included

Surface mapping & risk ranking

The API surface mapped — from your spec or from traffic — and endpoints ranked by risk, so coverage depth follows consequence.

Contract & schema tests

Response shapes, types, and status behavior locked down, so a changed field fails CI instead of a partner integration.

AuthZ & negative cases

Authentication, authorization across roles and tenants, and the negative and abuse cases that reveal what the API should have refused.

Regression suite in CI

The full suite running on every change — data-driven, environment-aware, runnable locally and in the pipeline.

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How it works

  1. Scope. Map the surface, rank endpoints by risk, and agree the coverage depth.
  2. Build. Build the contract, auth, negative, and regression tests; wire them into CI.
  3. Handover. Coverage report, CI gates, and documented patterns for testing new endpoints.
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Part of every Delivery Plan

The API Test Automation Suite is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.

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FAQs

Do you fix the defects the tests find?

Findings during the build are reported with evidence; fixing them stays with your team or a scoped follow-on, so the suite stays an honest measure rather than a moving target.

What do we need to provide?

API documentation — an OpenAPI spec helps but is not required — plus a test environment and credentials for the roles and tenants that matter.

How does this relate to security testing?

This suite guards behavior and contracts on every change. Adversarial depth — object-level authorization abuse, business-logic attack — is the API Penetration Test menu item; the two share the same surface map.

03

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons
Surface mapping & risk rankingincl.
Contract & schema testsincl.
AuthZ & negative casesincl.
Regression suite in CIincl.
04

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized
SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus
Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mo● complete
Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mo● complete
Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 mo● active
Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mo● complete
AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 mo● active
05

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to
SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth
Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC
CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC
Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS
Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO
Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE
On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token
06

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

07

Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

08

Pricing

one number · one footnote
billed monthly

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Available at all Delivery Plan Tiers →

All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

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FAQ

common questions
How is API Test Automation Suite priced?

Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.

Is API Test Automation Suite available now?

Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a API Test Automation Suite deployment be reversed?

Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides API Test Automation Suite?

Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

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How it compares

vs other delivery
OptionFromStackStatus
API Test Automation Suite · this one🔒 Sign in for pricingdelivery · outcome-driven-sprints · qa● available
Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint🔒 Sign in for pricingdelivery · outcome-driven-sprints · backlog● available
Technical Debt Reduction Sprint🔒 Sign in for pricingdelivery · outcome-driven-sprints · technical-debt● available
Critical Application Rescue🔒 Sign in for pricingdelivery · outcome-driven-sprints · rescue● available
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Commonly deployed with

more delivery

More delivery

Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint

Deliver a prioritized set of small production-ready changes that have accumulated behind a constrained delivery team.

All plan tiersoutcome-driven-sprintsbacklogdelivery-capacity
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Technical Debt Reduction Sprint

Remove a defined cluster of high-cost technical debt tied to reliability, speed, maintainability, or developer friction.

All plan tiersoutcome-driven-sprintstechnical-debtrefactoring
See options →

Critical Application Rescue

Stabilize a failing, broken, or abandoned application, restore reliable operation, and create a prioritized path forward.

All plan tiersoutcome-driven-sprintsrescuestabilization
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billed monthly

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