Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Raise; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is seeking a Senior QA Automation Analyst – API & Integration Testing in Calgary, Alberta. This role involves ensuring a high-quality digital check-in experience by validating API integrations and backend services.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, expertise in API testing, and practical knowledge of automation frameworks. Familiarity with travel systems is a plus, offering a chance to contribute in a dynamic digital environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance / Test Engineering.
• Strong expertise in testing REST APIs and validating JSON/XML payloads.
• Experience with test-driven and automation-first development approaches.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality lifecycle and deliver comprehensive test strategies.
• Develop robust API test cases and scalable automation scripts.
• Maintain regression test suites for continuous integration.

Skills

Software Quality Assurance

API Testing

Automation Frameworks

Microservices

Java

Spring Framework

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

RestAssured

Karate

Job description

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: 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.