Senior QA Automation Analyst – API & Integration Testing
Our client, a major Canadian airline, is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer – API & Integration Testing to join their 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.

Responsibilities

Own the quality lifecycle for this initiative and deliver comprehensive test strategies, detailed test plans.

Develop robust API test cases and scalable automation scripts.

Design end‑to‑end test scenarios encompassing the entire digital check‑in journey.

Maintain regression test suites for continuous integration.

Create accurate defect logs and highly visible reporting dashboards.

Support UAT validation and provide formal quality sign‑off artefacts.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance / Test Engineering.

Backend expertise: testing microservices and applications built with Java and the Spring framework.

API & Integration Testing: strong expertise testing REST APIs, JSON/XML payload validation, 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: mastery of modern API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, Karate, etc.).

Methodology: understanding of test‑driven and automation‑first development approaches.

Distributed Systems: 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).

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: robust 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.

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