Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer | Financial Services | AWS

3 days per week in Manila office

CBTR is hiring on behalf of a financial services client for a Senior QA Engineer to support the quality assurance of enterprise applications underpinning post-trade affirmation, confirmation and real-time messaging workflows.

This is a strong opportunity for a QA professional with experience in banking/trading environments, particularly across messaging workflows, FIX, XML/FIXML, and business-critical enterprise systems.

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 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).

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

• Containerization: Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience