Senior Engineer

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hammerjack Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality of enterprise-level applications, primarily focusing on post-trade workflows. This role involves executing manual test cases while driving automation initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing resilient test frameworks, providing L3 support, and mentoring junior team members. Candidates should have extensive experience in global financial services, strong Java expertise, and familiarity with FIX Protocols and AWS.

Qualifications

• Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services.
• Expertise in server-side Java design and development.
• Experience in Advanced proficiency in testing messaging workflows.
• Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying applications on AWS.
• CI/CD: Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab.
• Strong Linux administration and command-line skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and produce resilient test frameworks for code quality assurance.
• Provide L3 support for production issues.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and follow SaFe methodology.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with architecture and DevOps teams.
• Adhere to standard SDLC processes and development guidelines.

Skills

Server-side Java design and development

Messaging QA Experience

FIX Protocol knowledge

Cloud Platforms experience (AWS)

CI/CD proficiency (Jenkins, GitLab)

Strong Linux administration

SQL experience

JUnit testing frameworks

Agile methodologies

Problem-solving abilities

Tools

Solace messaging middleware

Grafana

Prometheus

Spring Boot

Cucumber

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Senior QA Engineer

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

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 years of professional experience in global financial services. Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3rd 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 oriented, 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