QA Engineer, API Testing

Department: Technology

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Compensation: CA$100K – CA$120K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

Purpose in Every Position

Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere.

Where Your Work Moves the Needle.

At Pebl, every team member drives our success. Joining us means more than filling a role—you’re accountable for results and impact. Our values guide how we operate, execute, and collaborate across borders. By putting them into action, you’ll help us scale faster, compete harder, and lead the future of global work.

What Makes You a Great Fit

We are looking for a motivated and growing QA Engineer to join our Engineering team, with a primary focus on API and back-end testing. The ideal candidate will contribute to the development and delivery of solutions that support our software quality, API test automation, and release reliability. You will build and extend automated API test suites - primarily using the Karate framework - collaborate with back-end engineers to validate services at the API layer, and play a role in advancing Pebl's business objectives.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated API test suites using Karate, covering functional, regression, integration, and contract testing of REST services

• Collaborate with back-end engineers, product managers, and designers to define testable API requirements and support the delivery of high-quality software releases

• Contribute to the development and improvement of our Karate-based API test automation framework, CI/CD testing pipelines, and QA processes

• Validate API behavior end to end - request/response contracts, status codes, error handling, authentication/authorization, data integrity, and integrations with databases and message queues

• Apply foundational knowledge of service architectures to drive product reliability, regression coverage, and operational efficiency

• Uphold standards in test quality, API test documentation, and release readiness

• Participate in code reviews, test plan reviews, and QA process discussions

• Mentor junior QA engineers and help foster a culture of continuous learning and quality excellence

Let’s Connect If You Have:

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Typically 1-2 years of experience in software testing, QA, or test automation, with hands-on exposure to API/back-end testing

• Experience with API test automation tools such as Karate, REST Assured, or Postman - experience with Karate is strongly preferred

• A solid understanding of REST fundamentals: HTTP methods, status codes, headers, JSON/XML payloads, and authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT)

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and running automated API tests as part of build and deployment workflows

• Basic SQL skills for validating data behind the API layer

• An eagerness to take initiative in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative development environment

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a team-oriented mindset

• Experience with Java, Gherkin/BDD, contract testing (e.g., Pact), performance testing (e.g., Gatling, JMeter), or API mocking/service virtualization is a plus

Core Competencies:

Ownership & Initiative — Takes responsibility for assigned work and meets deadlines

Customer Focus — Responds promptly to customer needs with quality work

Problem Solving & Adaptability — Breaks problems into parts; uses feedback to improve

Technical Rigor in API Quality — Understands how services behave beneath the UI; designs tests that verify contracts, data, and failure modes rather than just happy paths

Our Commitment to You

At Pebl, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:

• Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.

• Parental Leave – Support for growing families.

• Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.

• Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.

Please visit our career page for more information.

Pebl is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We power global teams and believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and impact. Employment decisions at Pebl are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive and do the best work of their career—anywhere in the world.