API smoke QA works best

API smoke QA works best when the first pass covers contract boundaries: auth failure, missing fields, invalid IDs, duplicate requests, rate-limit behavior, and error payloads. I document request and response evidence and prioritize defects by release risk. Available for a 24-hour focused API smoke review: https://contra.com/s/c2YLMmkm-24-hour-api-smoke-test-and-defect-report