Senior QA Automation (Recon Platform)

The role

You will own manual and exploratory quality coverage for card and payment backend systems. You will validate transaction flows, back-office processes, and integrations across a REST-based microservice architecture.

What you will do

• Test backend services and validate end-to-end transaction flows.
• Verify back-office processes including reconciliation, corrections, and operational workflows.
• Execute regression testing during releases, infrastructure changes, and platform migrations.
• Create and maintain test cases, checklists, and test documentation.
• Analyze defects, document findings, and drive resolution with engineering and product teams.
• Collect and track QA metrics to improve testing effectiveness and product quality.
• Contribute to API-level automation of transaction flow testing.

Required qualifications

• Experience testing backend systems and REST APIs.
• Confident use of Postman or similar API testing tools.
• Experience with PostgreSQL writing queries and validating stored data.
• Experience with Kafka event validation, topic analysis, and contract verification.
• Understanding of card processing and payment flows: authorization, hold, capture, reversal, chargeback.
• Ability to read code in Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Strong grasp of software testing principles, defect investigation, and test design techniques.

About the company

Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines.