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 middleoffice and posttrade systems including backend services APIs and eventdriven 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 lifecycle 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 middleoffice and posttrade applications.
Design write execute and maintain manual and automated test cases using Python.
Validate REST APIs backend services integrations and eventdriven 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 rootcause analysis for test failures and production issues.
Serve as second or thirdtier support for production issues impacting middleoffice and posttrade workflows.
Collaboration & Communication
Collaborate with business analysts developers product owners vendors and endusers 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 Linuxbased 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 microservicebased 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 fastpaced deliverydriven environment.
Strong sense of ownership accountability and selfdirection.
Desired
Experience testing financial systems (middleoffice posttrade trade lifecycle and reconciliations).
Experience testing eventdriven 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 AIassisted testing or QA automation tools.
Working on an EMEA shift.
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