Senior QA Analyst: API & Payment Systems

Jobtailor; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Montreal, Canada, seeks an experienced QA engineer to design and execute comprehensive test plans for banking and payment systems, ensuring API and event-driven flows perform reliably.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment, applying test automation, risk-based testing, and data-driven QA to reduce delivery risk and ensure high quality across complex distributed architectures.

Qualifications

• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment flows across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.
• Validate the quality, reliability, resilience, and testability of solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Test critical payment flows in distributed architectures, including API transactions, messaging platforms, event processing, and associated business outcomes.
• Develop and execute multi-layer test strategies, including API testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and non-functional testing.
• Contribute to test automation initiatives and participate in the development and maintenance of automated test assets.
• Use quality metrics, anomaly trends, and operational data to improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, testing gaps, quality debt, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to embed quality and testability into solution design.
• Track and manage defects, test execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira or similar tools.
• Support continuous improvement of QA practices, automation, and quality engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment flows across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.
• Validate quality, reliability, resilience, and testability of solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Test critical payment flows in distributed architectures, including API transactions, messaging platforms, event processing, and associated business outcomes.
• Develop and execute multi-layer test strategies, including API testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and non-functional testing.
• Contribute to test automation initiatives and participate in the development and maintenance of automated test assets.
• Use quality metrics, anomaly trends, and operational data to improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, testing gaps, quality debt, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to embed quality and testability into solution design.
• Track defects, test execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira or similar tools.
• Support continuous improvement of QA practices, automation, and quality engineering.

Skills

API Testing

Integration Testing

Test Automation

Agile Delivery

Bilingual Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Kafka

CI/CD Concepts

Microservices Architectures

Job description

Jobtailor in Montreal, Canada, seeks an experienced QA engineer to design and execute comprehensive test plans for banking and payment systems, ensuring API and event-driven flows perform reliably.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment, applying test automation, risk-based testing, and data-driven QA to reduce delivery risk and ensure high quality across complex distributed architectures.