Quality Assurance Consultant - API

TAP; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TAP is seeking a QA Engineer focused on API testing to protect the reliability of an online payments platform. You will design and execute functional, regression, and integration tests, and collaborate with developers to investigate defects and improve coverage.

The role emphasizes stress testing, maintaining automation assets, and contributing to quality initiatives across teams. Strong English communication and fintech know‑how are valued.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of relevant experience in financial services, fintech, or high-growth startups.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline.
• Solid knowledge of software testing principles and experience with manual testing methods and tools.
• Familiarity with defect tracking and version control systems.
• Strong English communication, problem-solving, organization, and time-management skills; able to collaborate, participate in meetings, and ask clear questions.
• Ability to build working relationships and understand the needs of clients, merchants, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Review project requirements and design test cases with developers.
• Test API requests and responses, and conduct functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Run stress tests on APIs using automated tools.
• Reproduce and isolate issues with developers, document findings clearly, and track defects through resolution.
• Maintain automated test scripts and frameworks, and provide quality and testability feedback in code reviews.
• Keep testing practices current and contribute to other quality tasks as the role develops.

Skills

API testing

Manual testing

Testing principles

Bug reproduction

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering

Tools

Defect tracking tools

Version control systems

Job description

Role overview

Help protect the quality and reliability of an online payment platform through API-focused testing. The role covers understanding requirements and API behavior, running functional, regression, integration, and stress tests, and working with developers to investigate defects and improve test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Review project requirements and functional specifications with developers, and use them to design and execute test cases.
• Test API requests and responses, and conduct functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Run stress tests on APIs using automated tools.
• Reproduce and isolate issues with developers, document findings clearly, and track defects through resolution.
• Help maintain automated test scripts and frameworks, and provide quality and testability feedback in code reviews.
• Keep testing practices current and contribute to other quality tasks as the role develops.

Requirements

• Four or more years of relevant experience in financial services, fintech, or a high-growth startup.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Solid knowledge of software testing principles and experience with manual testing methods and tools.
• Familiarity with defect tracking and version control systems.
• Strong English communication, problem-solving, organization, and time-management skills; able to collaborate, participate in meetings, and ask clear questions.
• Ability to build working relationships and understand the needs of clients, merchants, and other stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Basic programming knowledge in Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Arabic language ability.