Senior Engineer

ECLARO; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

ECLARO seeks a Senior QA Engineer to quality-assure enterprise-level post-trade affirmation workflows, including real-time messaging. The role blends manual testing with a push toward automation and requires cross-team collaboration across remote regions.

Responsibilities include building resilient test frameworks, providing L3 production support, and mentoring junior staff. Strong messaging, FIX protocol, and Linux skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services.
• Messaging QA experience testing MQ, XML, FIXML.
• Hands-on FIX Protocol and FIX Engines in trading environments.
• Solace middleware experience.
• Experience deploying on AWS (EC2/EKS).
• CI/CD using Jenkins and GitLab.
• Strong Linux administration and command-line skills.
• SQL database management and testing.
• JUnit and related testing frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration in teams.
• Experience with SaFe/Scrum agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and produce resilient test frameworks to QA code before deployment.
• L3 support for deployment and production issue investigation.
• Follow SaFe agile ceremonies and processes.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with remote regions and cross-functional teams.
• Work with architecture and DevOps to follow guidelines.
• Adhere to SDLC and development design patterns.

Skills

Messaging QA

JUnit

Agile SaFe

Linux admin

SQL

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Trading domain knowledge

Communication

Tools

MQ

XML

FIXML

QFJ

Rapid Addition

UlBridge

Solace

Jenkins

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

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