Role Overview

Our client is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join their team in Manila. This role focuses on ensuring the quality, reliability, and correctness of middle‑office and post‑trade systems, including backend services, APIs, and event‑driven workflows, with Python as the primary test automation language. You will work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and DevOps teams to validate complex business workflows, trading life‑cycle events, and distributed systems. The role emphasizes automation, defect ownership, and production support, while actively contributing to framework design and CI/CD quality enforcement.

Role Responsibilities

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Perform exploratory, functional, regression, integration, and system testing for middle‑office and post‑trade applications.

• Design, write, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases using Python.

• Validate REST APIs, backend services, integrations, and event‑driven systems, including messaging architectures built on Solace PubSub+.

• Participate in defining and executing capacity, load, and performance test scenarios.

• Analyse system logs, configurations, databases, and runtime data to confirm expected behavior and diagnose defects.

Automation & CI/CD

• Contribute to the design, enhancement, and maintenance of automation testing frameworks.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

• Improve test coverage, execution speed, resilience, and test data reliability across environments.

Defect Management & Production Support

• Identify, report, triage, and track defects throughout the bug lifecycle (bug advocacy).

• Perform root‑cause analysis for test failures and production issues.

• Serve as second‑ or third‑tier support for production issues impacting middle‑office and post‑trade workflows.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, product owners, vendors, and end‑users to understand business requirements and operational flows.

• Communicate test plans, scenarios, execution results, risks, and quality metrics clearly.

• Promote strong quality engineering practices.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance (manual and automation).

• Strong proficiency in Python for automated testing.

• Solid experience with SQL and Linux‑based environments.

• Strong understanding of test design techniques; test scripting and automation; defect analysis, reporting, and tracking; QA methodologies and best practices.

• Experience testing backend systems, APIs, and distributed or microservice‑based platforms.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including documentation of test plans and results.

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and iterative (Agile) delivery models.

• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, delivery‑driven environment.

• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and self‑direction.

Desired

• Experience testing financial systems (middle‑office, post‑trade, trade life‑cycle and reconciliations).

• Experience testing event‑driven and messaging systems, including Solace PubSub+, Kafka, RabbitMQ/AMQP, or MQTT.

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Git.

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience with performance, load, or resilience testing.

• Familiarity with BDD tools (Behave, Cucumber).

• Experience using AI‑assisted testing or QA automation tools. 

Working on an EMEA shift.