QA Engineer (Agent app)

• Location: Manila, Philippines

We’re looking for a Manual QA Engineer to join our team and work on card and payment systems. In this role, you’ll be testing REST-based microservices behind card issuance and transaction flows, ensuring reliability across authorizations, captures, refunds, and more. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers and product teams, contribute to quality processes, and have the opportunity to grow into test automation at the API level.

Key responsibilities

• Manual testing of a REST-based microservice architecture, primarily:

  • services related to virtual and physical card issuance and management

  • transaction flows: authorizations, captures, reversals, refunds

• 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)

Requirements and expectations

• 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

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