Senior Release Quality Engineer

Stealth Startup; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth Startup in the Philippines is seeking a Senior Release Quality Engineer to serve as a gatekeeper for platform quality, data integrity, and production readiness. You will own end-to-end validation across development, QA, UAT, pre-production, and production environments, collaborating with cross-functional leads and executive leadership.

In this fast-paced FinTech context, you will help establish release gates, standard testing protocols, and data validation frameworks while continuously

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or 5+ years in software quality engineering and release validation.
• Proven track record in ownership, delivery excellence, and high-accountability environments.
• Strong communication skills with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Executive & Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and leadership for platform stability.
• Release Ownership: End-to-end validation across Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production and Production.
• Complex Data & Functional Validation: Validate functional, regression, integration, data testing and financial calculations.
• Defect Management & Risk Mitigation: Identify, document, and communicate risk to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Process Leadership: Establish release gates, testing protocols, and validation frameworks.
• Continuous Improvement: Audit and refine testing workflows and deployment practices.

Skills

Quality engineering

Release management

Data validation

SQL querying

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT or 5+ years experience

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Test automation frameworks

Cloud platforms

Job description

Schedule: Semi-flexible, typically 4 PM to 1 AM Manila Time

Company Description

WE ARE

A well-funded, innovative FinTech startup founded by Wall Street and Silicon Valley veterans. Combining decades of experience on trading floors, global financial markets, and cutting-edge AI technologies, we are building a groundbreaking trading platform designed to democratize complex investment opportunities for all investors.

YOU ARE

An ambitious, analytical, and detail-oriented Quality Engineer looking for a high-impact trajectory in your career. You are driven by responsibility and looking for more than an ordinary QA role—you want a seat at the table where your contributions directly influence the platform's success.

You operate with composure under tight deadlines and enjoy solving complex problems alongside top-tier technical and executive talent. Meticulous and curious, you take complete ownership of release quality to ensure every deployment is stable, precise, and production-ready.

THE JOB

As a Senior Release Quality Engineer, you will serve as a critical gatekeeper for our platform’s quality, data integrity, and production readiness.

This is a highly visible position with direct executive exposure. Beyond standard validation, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional leads and executive leadership—including assisting with technical preparation for high-stakes product demonstrations.

While the environment is fast-paced and demands a strong ability to perform under pressure, it offers extraordinary professional growth: you will gain hands‑on mastery in advanced FinTech and AI systems while working within an elite, high-performing engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive & Stakeholder Alignment: Work directly with Engineering, Product, and executive leadership to ensure platform stability, including preparing environments and workflows for critical stakeholder demonstrations.
• Release Ownership: Own end-to-end validation across Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Complex Data & Functional Validation: Conduct rigorous functional, regression, integration, and data testing, ensuring absolute accuracy in financial calculations, reporting, and automated workflows.
• Defect Management & Risk Mitigation: Identify, document, and prioritize technical discrepancies; communicate risk assessments clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Process Leadership: Establish standardized release gates, repeatable testing protocols, and validation frameworks to elevate platform-wide software quality.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively audit and refine testing workflows, tools, and cross-team deployment practices.

Requirements

• Professional Drive: Proven track record of taking ownership, driving initiatives, and striving for continuous career advancement in high-accountability environments.
• Resilience Under Pressure: Ability to navigate fast-paced delivery schedules, shifting priorities, and critical deployment windows with focus and composure.
• Domain Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or 5+ years of dedicated experience in software quality engineering and release validation.
• Technical Mastery: Deep experience validating web applications, APIs, complex data integration workflows, and business logic across multi-tier deployment environments.
• Analytical Precision: Exceptional problem-solving skills with a strong ability to conduct root-cause analysis on data discrepancies and system edge cases.
• Stakeholder Communication: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to articulate risks and present findings to executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in FinTech, financial markets, real estate technology, or data-intensive domains.
• Familiarity with financial data structures, complex calculation validation, and executive dashboard reporting.
• Technical comfort with APIs, relational databases, SQL queries, and structured/unstructured datasets (JSON, XML).
• Exposure to test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform environments.
• Familiarity with application performance monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting tools.