About us

Archax is an FCA-regulated exchange, broker and custodian for digital assets, targeted at professional and institutional clients. Our services cover all types of digital assets – from cryptocurrencies to NFTs to digital securities – as well as traditional financial instruments too. Our vision is to develop a truly digital capital markets ecosystem that bridges traditional and crypto markets, leveraging tokenisation and blockchain/DLT/Web3.0 technologies.

Archax pH7 Inc. is an information technology company providing software and application development, back-office tech support and a wide range of consultancy / advisory services to its clients in the fintech industry.

Archax PH7 Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Archax Groups Ltd (UK).

What's in it for you?

• Highly competitive (above industry) salary
• Health insurance (includes cover for you and 2 family members)
• Employee life insurance
• Additional leave
• Mandatory Government benefits (SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG)
• Temporary work from home due to Covid
• Opportunity to build and grow the technology that will lead the evolution in digital asset trading
• Opportunity to enhance and develop your career and portfolio through working on high-profile projects
• Opportunity to work with skilled multicultural talents passionate about providing best in class expertise
• Encouraged and supported in developing crypto knowledge

The Role

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Analyse and design test plans and cases, step definitions, and feature files in order to test our Product range, acting as the most senior QA Engineering members of the team
• Help to build test libraries and increase automation coverage in our tools
• Staying up to date with new technologies, multi-tasking on multiple projects with other team members
• Follow software development processes and testing conventions, using Agile/SCRUM principles, and working closely with other QA Engineers, Development Leads, Developers, and Scrum Masters
• Break down detailed specifications and implement testing requirements based on the needs of the Product team, Stakeholders, and Clients
• Generate reporting progress metrics and list of tests which are flaky and prioritise them
• Supporting, mentoring, and following best coding practices and guidelines
• Troubleshoot issues in a timely manner in a highly scalable development environment
• Help to achieve 100% automation and integrate and maintain the tests within Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
• Contribute ideas to improve the testing process and overall development practices
• Work with the SCRUM Masters and Development Leads to coordinate within SCRUM meetings with the Product team/Stakeholders, ensuring all relevant information to the Test team and project are shared and discussed
• Continuous review of automation tests and should build a scalable framework
• Mentor Manual QA Testers to transition into QA Automation Engineers

Knowledge and Experience Required:

• The ideal candidate will have a degree relevant to Information Technology/Computer Science, Engineering (or equivalent), and at least 9 years of API automation experience.
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases, and performing testing
• Has previously worked in the financial service industry and has experience with testing capital markets and high volume trading software solutions with at least 6+ years of experience
• Experience of working on OMS
• Experience in using Postman
• Well-versed with FIX protocol and trading standards and its lifecycle.
• Familiarity with frameworks/languages such as SuperWSTest, NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript, C++, Java, PactumJS
• Experience in using BDD practice using JavaScript-based testing frameworks (such as Gherkin, Cucumber, Mocha, Chai) in a CI (Continuous Integration) environment
• API and Web Sockets automation using SuperWSTest and Javascript
• Knowledge with Cypress or Playwright is a plus but not required
• Experience in functional and performance testing, sanity testing, black/white box testing, static testing, positive and negative testing, and security testing
• Experience in load/stress/performance testing (JMeter, LoadRunner, LoadStorm or other LPT tools)
• Participate in Quality Assurance activities including but not limited to estimation, test planning, test design, performance testing, test execution,
• Experience with collaborative team software tools (Confluence, JIRA, Sharepoint)
• Passion for product quality/attention to detail in unblocking any automation blockers and finding ways to automate every scenario
• Excellent written and oral communication level in English language.

• Understanding of testing blockchain solutions
• Experience of working on globally distributed market data systems using web tech
• GUI automation tools (Cypress or Playwright)

Other Skills/Experience:

• Worked in an early-stage start-up
• Worked in the finance industry
• Worked in an Agile environment
• Blockchain
• Experience analysing and testing large ERP or Financial IT systems.
• Experience in finance with real time trading systems/market data.
• Experience in working in a regulated financial firm.
• Experienced in working with multinational global teams.
• Knowledge about Websockets

Archax is an equal opportunities employer and places a high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on any attribute