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Getting EDIT_ISSUES error when trying to add steps to the test case using Jira Cloud API

Sai Audithya Sarvabhotla
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June 30, 2025

Hi,

I am trying to add steps using below API by generating the JWT token and passing correct accountID, secret keys and access tokens but i am not able to add steps using the API

End point: https://prod-api.zephyr4jiracloud.com/connect/public/rest/api/1.0/teststep/713627?projectId=10010

Request headers - Authorization  and zapiAccessKey

Response:
{
"errorType": "ERROR",
"clientMessage": "User does not have EDIT_ISSUES permission to perform the operation...",
"errorCode": 169
}

i have created the testcase using jira api and it got created successfully and also checked mypermissions for that test case and it says i have edit access but using the above API getting error

https://epssw.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue

{
    "id": "713640",
    "key": "TESTPROJ-20729",
    "watchers": {
        "status": 200,
        "warningCollection": {
            "warnings": []
        }
    }

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