API Verification Engineer

Location: Urbandale, IA Salary: $45.00 USD Hourly - $46.00 USD Hourly Description: Job Title - Software Engineer
location - Urbandale IA
Duration - Contract For 1+ years
Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases based on user stories, business requirements, acceptance criteria, technical designs, and customer workflows.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, exploratory, negative, and end-to-end testing across software applications and services.
• Test RESTful APIs, validating requests and responses, HTTP status codes, JSON payloads, authentication and authorization mechanisms, permissions, error handling, and boundary conditions.
• Utilize API testing tools such as Postman, Bruno, or similar platforms to verify system behavior and integration requirements.
• Design, create, configure, and manage test data required to support complex testing scenarios and business workflows.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues across applications, APIs, cloud services, databases, and integrated systems to identify root causes and resolution paths.
• Document, track, and manage software defects with clear reproduction steps, severity assessments, and supporting evidence.
• Partner closely with software developers, product owners, and cross-functional engineering teams to resolve issues and improve product quality.
• Assess verification outcomes, identify technical risks, and provide recommendations regarding software quality and release readiness.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives for testing processes, tools, methodologies, and quality standards.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and technical findings effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in Software Verification & Validation (V&V), System Integration & Test (SI&T), Software Quality Assurance, or a related engineering field supporting complex software systems.
• Proven ability to independently develop and execute test strategies and test plans.
• Hands-on experience testing RESTful APIs and web services.
• Proficiency with API testing tools such as Postman, Bruno, Insomnia, or equivalent solutions.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, defect lifecycle management, and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting capabilities.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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