Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Senior QA Automation Analyst – API & Integration Testing

• Contract Length: 6 Months
• Location: Calgary, Alberta

Raise is currently hiring a Senior QA Automation Analyst – API & Integration Testing on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, is a major Canadian airline

Description

Our client is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer – API & Integration Testing o join our digital team. In this role, you will be responsible for validating the end‑to‑end Seamless Check‑In experience, ensuring the highest level of quality across API integrations, backend services, and digital check‑in (DCI) flows.

This position is critical to ensuring a reliable, world-class interaction between our clients consumer orchestration layer and Delta/SkyTeam provider services. Because this solution depends heavily on external APIs, distributed workflows, and complex business rules handled by our partners, we need a technical QA leader who thrives in complex integration environments.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior QA Automation Analyst – API & Integration Testing you will own the quality lifecycle for this initiative and be expected to deliver:
• Comprehensive Test Strategies and detailed Test Plans.
• Robust API test cases and scalable automation scripts.
• End-to-End (E2E) test scenarios encompassing the entire digital check‑in journey.
• Maintainable regression test suites for continuous integration.
• Accurate defect logs and highly visible reporting dashboards.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) validation support and formal quality sign-off artefacts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of dedicated experience in Software Quality Assurance / Test Engineering.
• Backend Expertise: Proven experience testing microservices and applications built with Java and the Spring framework.
• API & Integration Testing: Strong expertise testing REST APIs, including deep familiarity with JSON/XML payload validation and API authentication methods like OAuth 2.0 and JWT.
• Automation: Practical experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Tooling: Hands-on mastery of modern API testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured, Karate, etc.).
• Methodology: A strong understanding of test-driven and automation-first development approaches.
• Distributed Systems: Demonstrated experience testing external partner integrations, microservices architectures, and API orchestration layers.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Airline or Travel Systems, specifically Departure Control Systems (DCS) and passenger journeys.
• Familiarity with multi-system workflows and partner API integrations (e.g., codeshare flights and airline alliances).
• Collaboration & Soft Skills
• Defect Management: Exceptional ability to identify, log, and track defects across complex API integrations, front-end digital flows, and backend services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work closely with developers to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and champion a quality-first mindset.
• Partner Triage: Strong communication skills to support the triage of integration issues across both internal teams and external partner engineering teams.

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

Additional Information

• Our client asks that candidates provide 2 Endorsements/References at the time of application: ( this could be a colleague/manager that worked with you on Recent Projects that relate to this role Ask them to provide a Quick Endorsement - testimonial in point form of your accomplishment / value added) to highlight your skills for this role