API Quality Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. in Toronto is seeking an API testing and quality engineering professional to join our QA team.

You will design, execute and automate tests for RESTful and SOAP APIs, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with developers, architects and product owners to ensure high quality releases. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and strong hands-on experience with Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI and JMeter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong experience in API testing with Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI and JMeter.
• Proficiency with HTTP, REST, JSON, XML and API authentication (OAuth/JWT).
• Experience building and maintaining automated API test suites and integrating tests into CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed test plans and strategies for API testing.
• Identify test cases based on requirements, technical specifications, and user stories.
• Design and maintain automated and manual test cases for RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Test execution: validate payloads, headers, authentication and errors with tools like Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI, JMeter.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to clarify requirements and resolve defects.
• Build and maintain API test automation frameworks; integrate tests into CICD pipelines.
• Log, track, and prioritize defects using Jira or Azure DevOps; present quality dashboards.
• Promote QA best practices and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

API testing

Postman

Rest Assured

SoapUI

JMeter

HTTP/REST/XML/JSON

OAuth/JWT

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is the technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence and customer service.

It has set an aspiration to become the world's largest AI-led technology services company and is enabling its clients to transform themselves across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to intelligence.

Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce spread across 56 countries and 194 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed test plans and strategies for API testing, covering functional, non-functional, integration, and regression scenarios.
• Identify test cases based on requirements, technical specifications, and user stories.
• Design and maintain automated and manual test cases for RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Test Execution: Execute API tests using automation tools (e.g., Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI, JMeter) and manual techniques. Validate request response payloads, headers, authentication, and error handling Conduct performance, security, and reliability testing of APIs.
• Collaboration: Discussions Participate in API design reviews and discussions, providing quality assurance insights and recommendations. Advocate for testability, maintainability, and robust error handling in API design. Work closely with developers, architects, and product owners to clarify requirements and resolve defects.
• Automation Continuous Integration: Build and maintain API test automation frameworks. Integrate API tests into CICD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Monitor test results and provide timely feedback to stakeholders
• Defect Management: Reporting Log, track, and prioritize defects using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps. Analyze failures, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate for quick resolution. Prepare and present test reports, metrics, and quality dashboards.
• Quality Advocacy Champion: QA best practices, standards, and continuous improvement within the team. Mentor junior Es and share knowledge on API testing techniques and tools.
• Required Skills Qualifications bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. Good years of experience in API testing and quality engineering Proficient in API testing tools (Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI, JMeter). Strong knowledge of HTTP, REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, and API authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, etc.). Good Experience with test automation frameworks.

Salary Range - CA$ 80,000 - CA$ 100,000 Per Year

TCS does not use artificial intelligence tools for candidate screening or evaluation. This post is for a current vacancy. The hiring process includes an initial screening, followed by a technical evaluation and managerial discussion.

Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources.

Thank you for your interest in TCS. Candidates that meet the qualifications for this position will be contacted within a 2-week period.