Senior Engineer

ECLARO; Philippines; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ECLARO is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to QA and maintain enterprise-grade post-trade workflows, with a move toward automated testing. You will handle MQ/XML/FIX-based messaging, contribute to test frameworks and collaborate across global DevOps and architecture teams.

Ideal candidates have strong Java backend experience in banking/trading, a solid foundation in Linux and SQL, and a proactive approach to automation within an agile SaFe environment.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in global financial services with messaging and trade-confirmation workflows.
• Strong server-side Java development experience in banking/trading contexts.
• Expertise in messaging workflows using MQ/XML/FIXML.
• Hands-on FIX Protocol experience with FIX engines (e.g. QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge).
• Middleware knowledge with Solace messaging.
• Cloud exposure on AWS (EC2/EKS) and basic DevOps practices.
• CI/CD with Jenkins/GitLab and Linux command-line skills.
• Proven debugging, problem solving and attention to detail.
• Excellent collaboration and communication in agile teams (SaFe/Scrum).

Responsibilities

• Define resilient test frameworks to QA code before production deployment.
• L3 support for production issues and deployment investigations.
• Follow SaFe agile processes and participate in ceremonies.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge.
• Collaborate with architecture and DevOps for guidelines.
• Work with remote regions and adhere to SDLC standards.

Skills

Messaging QA

Java

Linux

SQL

MQ

XML

FIX Protocol

JUnit

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitLab

AWS

Solace

Observability

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

MQ

XML

QFJ

Rapid Addition

UlBridge

AWS

Solace

Job description

Role: Senior QA Engineer

Role Overview

Senior QA Engineer responsible for quality assuring and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing. Whilst this role requires the execution of manual test cases, there is a programme of change to drive towards automated testing and therefore any experience in taking a manual test capability and driving to automation is advantageous

Role Responsibilities

• Ensuring that resilient test frameworks are defined and produced in order to quality-assure code, ahead of deployment to the production environment
• L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate.
• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Ability to work with multiple remote regions.
• Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations.
• Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Multiple yearsof professional experience in global financial services. Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3 rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage
• Proven expertise in server-side Java design and development within banking and trading environments
• Messaging QA Experience: Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows - MQ, XML, FIXML. Very detail orientated, understands the impact of getting it wrong
• FIX Protocol: Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge) in eg FX/Credit/Commodities Trading environments
• Middleware: Working knowledge of Solace messaging middleware
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS)
• CI/CD: Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration
• Operating Systems: Strong Linux administration and command-line skills
• Database: SQL experience and database management
• Testing: JUnit and related unit testing frameworks
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments.
• Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum).

Desired

• Deep understanding of FX/Credit/Commodities products and financial instruments.
• Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems
• Frameworks: Spring Boot and Google Guice dependency injection
• Observability: Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and metrics
• Testing: Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing
• Infrastructure: Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code
• Caching: Hazelcast distributed caching solutions