QA Automation Engineer (Core banking)

Salmon Group; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Fully remote

Tools & equipment

Medical insurance

Vacation & holidays

Beach house week

Job summary

Salmon Group is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to strengthen testing across our core banking systems, including tariffs, deposits, and B2B payments. You will design and execute manual and automated tests for APIs, databases, and backend services, extending our Kotlin-based framework and validating data and business rules.

With 3+ years of backend/API QA experience, you’ll collaborate with developers, product, and DevOps to improve test coverage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in QA automation on backend/API-focused systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with manual API and backend testing.
• Experience with integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of backend systems.
• Experience writing and running SQL queries for data validation.
• Ability to work with Kotlin and contribute to existing automated test suites.
• Experience testing financial systems, payment systems, or other transactional products.
• Experience with core banking, deposits, tariffs, fees, billing, payments, or lending products.

Responsibilities

• Test core banking systems spanning tariffs, deposits, B2B payments, and other backend financial flows.
• Run manual and automated testing across APIs, databases, backend services, and integrations.
• Extend our existing Kotlin-based automation framework, adding new tests by following established patterns.
• Design, maintain, and execute test cases for new functionality and regression scenarios across core banking systems.
• Validate APIs, backend integrations, business rules, calculations, transaction flows, and data consistency.
• Analyze logs, database records, and system behavior to identify, reproduce, and document defects.
• Build and maintain API automated tests using the existing Kotlin-based framework.
• Partner with developers, analysts, product, and DevOps to investigate defects and improve test coverage.
• Contribute to test documentation, regression coverage, and quality processes as the product scope grows.

Skills

QA automation

Backend testing

API testing

SQL queries

Kotlin

Tools

Kotlin

Java

SQL

Job description

Remote | +8 UTC | Core collaboration hours: 12:00–6:00 PM Manila Time Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines. We combine global fintech expertise with deep local market knowledge to make financial services simple, accessible, and useful for millions of people across the region. 7M+ app downloads. If you want to solve complex problems at scale and impact how millions of people access and manage money, come build with us. Southeast Asia's fintech moment starts here.

You’ll strengthen QA coverage across Salmon's Core banking systems — tariffs, deposits, B2B payments — through hands‑on testing and Kotlin-based API automation.

Test core banking systems spanning tariffs, deposits, B2B payments, and other backend financial flows. Run manual and automated testing across APIs, databases, backend services, and integrations. Extend our existing Kotlin-based automation framework, adding new tests by following established patterns. Design, maintain, and execute test cases for new functionality and regression scenarios across core banking systems. Validate APIs, backend integrations, business rules, calculations, transaction flows, and data consistency. Analyze logs, database records, and system behavior to identify, reproduce, and document defects. Build and maintain API automated tests using the existing Kotlin-based framework. Partner with developers, analysts, product, and DevOps to investigate defects and improve test coverage. Contribute to test documentation, regression coverage, and quality processes as the product scope grows.

3+ years of experience in QA automation on backend/API-focused systems.

• Strong hands-on experience with manual API and backend testing.
• Experience with integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of backend systems.
• Experience writing and running SQL queries for data validation.
• Ability to work with Kotlin and contribute to existing automated test suites.
• Experience testing financial systems, payment systems, or other transactional products.

Experience with core banking, deposits, tariffs, fees, billing, payments, or lending products. Experience maintaining API automation in Kotlin or Java. Experience testing applications at financial institutions.

• Stock option plan — four-year vesting with a 25% cliff after the first year
• Fully remote work with core collaboration hours from 12:00 to 6:00 PM Manila time (UTC+8)
• Company-provided tools and equipment
• Medical insurance support for you and your family through co-funding or reimbursement, depending on your location and subject to policy limits
• 22 vacation days, Philippine public holidays, and 15 sick days
• High-performing teams can earn a dedicated beach house week in Southeast Asia