Manual QA Engineer (Backend)
Company: Salmon
Location: Manila, Philippines
Remote work is possible, preferred time zones GMT+4 to GMT+8
Hi, we’re Salmon 🚀
Your future tasks:
Manual testing of a REST-based microservice architecture, primarily:
- New Feature Testing for new card-related functionality
- Regression testing during releases and infrastructure migrations
- Writing test cases, checklists, and documenting test results
- Collaborating with developers, product managers, and analysts based on test outcomes
- Collecting and analyzing QA metrics
- Opportunity to grow into AQA: automation of card and payment flow testing (API-level)
What we expect from candidate:
- Confident use of Postman (or similar tools)
- Basic ability to read code (Java / JS / Kotlin)
- Experience with PostgreSQL: writing queries, validating stored data and entity relations
- Experience with Kafka: validating event delivery, analyzing topics, contract/schema validation
- Understanding of core card processing concepts: authorization, hold, chargeback
Nice to have:
- Experience testing financial products (cards/payments/transaction systems)
- Experience with load or automated testing
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), and reporting tools like Allure
Why would it be cool to work with us?
What we create
- Modern banking services for millions of Filipinos
- Cutting-edge solutions based on the best world practices and AI implementation
- Licensed neobank aiming to be a unicorn and leading fintech in the fast-growing region of Southeast Asia
- A business capable of raising over $200MM from the ADQ (the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi), World Bank Group and other investors despite the challenging market
- An environment that allows you to launch new products in 3-4 months
- A basis for expanding into new markets all over the world
What we offer
- Passionate international team spanning the globe
- Rapid professional growth. Merit (and merit only) rules the day
- Reward for performance and long-term success of Salmon
- Fast track to grow internationally
- New office in Manila, Philippines
- Relocation support for eligible candidates
- Remote and hybrid options
- Medical insurance, health and wellness benefits
- Program of events and activities both online and in person
