Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment seeks a Senior QA Engineer for a hybrid role in BGC, Taguig. You will define and validate resilient test frameworks, support production deployments, and mentor juniors within a SaFe/agile setup.

The role emphasizes messaging workflows, FIX Protocol, and Java-based backend testing in banking/trading contexts, with strong Linux, SQL, and CI/CD skills across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience testing messaging workflows (MQ, XML, FIXML).
• Hands-on Java design in banking/trading environments.
• Strong Linux administration and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure resilient test frameworks for quality assurance before production deployment.
• L3 support for deployment and production issue investigation.
• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in ceremonies.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with architecture and DevOps teams on guidelines.

Skills

Java

Messaging QA

FIX Protocol

Linux

SQL

Spring Boot

Guice

JUnit

Cucumber

Kubernetes

AWS

Jenkins

GitLab

MQ/XML/ FIXML

Observability

Tools

JQFJ

Rapid Addition

UlBridge

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Senior QA Engineer - Hybrid setup in BGC, Taguig

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 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 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