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Recruitment API Testing Guide

Summary​

Recruitment has a broad smoke helper and an HTTP request collection, but no dedicated automated API test project.

Audience​

Developers, QA and support engineers, implementation partners, architects, and security reviewers working with Recruitment APIs.

Prerequisites​

Use an approved non-production environment, isolated tenant context, authorized test identity, and approved cleanup procedure. Confirm dependency availability before exercising Workflow, Employee, or Document integration paths.

Procedure​

Implemented evidence​

  • Smoke checks exercise native workflows, public flows, compatibility operations, audit/timeline/outbox evidence, integrations, reporting, bulk transfer, and gateway shadow/toggle/rollback behavior.
  • The HTTP collection provides manual service requests.
  • Gateway route-source behavior is observable during smoke execution.

Safe test sequence​

A formal unit, integration, contract, compatibility-parity, or dedicated frontend API test suite is Not implemented. Smoke automation mutates environment state and must not be treated as production-safe without an approved procedure. Test identities, tokens, personal data, internal addresses, and sample compensation values are intentionally omitted.

Validation or Expected Result​

Confirm the expected HTTP result, persisted Recruitment state, audit/timeline evidence, and outbox evidence for the selected flow. When testing routing, also confirm the gateway-reported owner. Do not infer cross-service completion from a Recruitment success response without checking the applicable dependency result.

Troubleshooting​

Separate context failures, validation failures, missing resources, conflicts, dependency failures, and gateway-owner mismatches. Use correlation evidence and approved logs; do not copy credentials, tokens, personal data, document content, interview notes, or offer values into test reports.

Requires confirmation​

Production exposure, authorization policy, ownership, compatibility parity, operational limits, and version governance require confirmation.

Source References​

  • microservices/scripts/smoke-recruitment.ps1
  • microservices/src/recruitment-service/recruitment-service.http
  • microservices/src/recruitment-service/recruitment-service.csproj
  • microservices/src/gateway-api/Program.cs

See Also​

Keywords​

  • Recruitment API
  • API Testing Guide

Revision Information​

  • Status: Draft
  • Last reviewed: 2026-07-16
  • Review cycle: Quarterly