Senior QA Engineer

ECLARO; Taguig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ECLARO in Taguig, Philippines is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to quality assure and maintain enterprise-level post-trade workflow applications. The role combines manual testing with a drive toward automation and cross-team collaboration.

You will build resilient test frameworks, support production troubleshooting, and mentor teammates while operating within SaFe/agile processes and cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in global financial services and messaging workflows is required.
• Proven expertise with server-side Java in banking/trading environments.
• Strong testing background for MQ, XML, FIXML and FIX Protocol.

Responsibilities

• Define resilient test frameworks for enterprise apps.
• Provide L3 support for production issues and investigations.
• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in ceremonies.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with architecture, DevOps and cloud teams.
• Follow SDLC and design pattern guidelines.
• Work across multiple remote regions.

Skills

Messaging QA

Java server-side

SQL

Linux

Automation testing

Agile/SaFe

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

MQ

XML

JUnit

Cucumber

FIX Engines

Kubernetes

AWS (EKS)

Solace

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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

• Multiple years of 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).
• 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
• Containerization: Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience