API Verification Engineer

Job Title: API Verification Engineer

Location: Urbandale, IA, 50322

Pay Rate: $42 to $46 /hour

W2 contract only (NO C2C)

Duration: Until Oct/2027

Highly prefer candidates willing to work onsite.

• Experience in software verification, System Integration & Test, software quality engineering, or a related engineering discipline supporting complex software systems.
• Demonstrated ability to independently develop and execute test strategies and test plans from user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, technical designs, and customer workflows.
• Hands-on experience testing RESTful APIs, including request and response validation, HTTP behavior, JSON payloads, authentication and authorization, permissions, error conditions, and boundary scenarios.
• Hands-on experience with an API client or testing tool such as Postman, Bruno, or a comparable tool.
• Strong systems-thinking, analytical, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate issues across applications, APIs, cloud services, data, and integration boundaries.
• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, exploratory, negative, and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to independently establish appropriate test conditions and create, configure, and manage test data needed to exercise complex system workflows.
• Experience documenting and managing high-quality software defects and working directly with developers to support root cause analysis and resolution.
• Ability to assess verification results and technical risk and provide clear input regarding software quality and release readiness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working effectively with developers, product owners, and other engineering disciplines within cross-functional Agile teams.
• Demonstrated ownership, curiosity, and self-direction, with the ability to independently drive verification activities while collaborating effectively across teams.