QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

768 TP ICAP Management Services Ltd (Philippines Branch); Taguig; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

768 TP ICAP Management Services Ltd (Philippines Branch) is looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to join its Credit Technology team in Taguig. This role will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of backend trading systems and applications through a combination of manual and automated testing.

Candidates should have a strong background in software quality assurance, proficiency in C#, and be familiar with APIs and databases. The position offers a professional work environment that encourages ownership and accountability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance including manual and automated testing.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C# for automated testing.
• Solid experience with SQL and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform exploratory and functional testing for applications.
• Design, write, and maintain test cases.
• Validate backend services and APIs.

Skills

Software Quality Assurance (manual and automation)

C#

SQL

Linux

Agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands‑on QA Engineer to join our Credit Technology team. This role is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of backend trading systems, APIs, and UI applications through a combination of manual and automated testing. You will validate complex end‑to‑end trading workflows, including distributed services, event‑driven systems, and user interfaces (desktop and web), and will remain deeply involved in hands‑on testing, debugging, and defect analysis while contributing to automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. The role operates on an EMEA shift.

Responsibilities

• Perform exploratory, functional, regression, integration, and system testing for middle‑office and post‑trade applications.
• Design, write, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases.
• Validate REST APIs, backend services, integrations, and event‑driven systems, including messaging architectures built on message queues.
• Participate in defining and executing capacity, load, and performance test scenarios.
• Analyse system logs, configurations, databases, and runtime data to confirm expected behaviour and diagnose defects.
• Contribute to the design, enhancement, and maintenance of automation testing frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS DevOps).
• Improve test coverage, execution speed, resilience, and test data reliability across environments.
• Identify, report, triage, and track defects throughout the bug lifecycle (bug advocacy).
• Perform root‑cause analysis for test failures and production issues.
• Serve as second‑ or third‑tier support for production issues impacting middle‑office and post‑trade workflows.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, product owners, vendors, and end‑users to understand business requirements and operational flows.
• Communicate test plans, scenarios, execution results, risks, and quality metrics clearly, promoting strong quality engineering practices.

Essential Competences

• Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance (manual and automation).
• Strong proficiency in C# or similar OO language for automated testing.
• Solid experience with SQL and Linux‑based environments.
• Strong understanding of test design techniques; test scripting and automation; defect analysis, reporting, and tracking; QA methodologies and best practices.
• Experience testing backend systems, APIs, and distributed or microservice‑based platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including documentation of test plans and results.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and iterative (Agile) delivery models.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, delivery‑driven environment.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and self‑direction.

Desired Experience

• Experience testing financial systems (middle‑office, post‑trade, trade life‑cycle and reconciliations).
• Experience testing event‑driven and messaging systems, including Solace PubSub+, Kafka, RabbitMQ/AMQP, or MQTT.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Git.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with performance, load, or resilience testing.
• Familiarity with BDD tools (Behave, Cucumber).
• Experience using AI‑assisted testing or QA automation tools.

Band & Level

Professional, 5