Postman is the fastest path to your first paid bug; REST Assured is the framework that lands SDET offers. Most senior testers know both.
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Postman strengths
Collections, environments, and visual responses make API exploration extremely fast. Newman + GitHub Actions runs collections in CI without writing a line of Java.
REST Assured strengths
BDD-style given/when/then, Hamcrest matchers, and JSONPath schema validation belong in any serious automation framework. It also plays beautifully with Allure and Cucumber.
Recommended path
Learn Postman first to ship value in week one. Add REST Assured in month two to clear SDET interview rounds and ship a real regression suite.
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