UAT Tester - Cards & Payments
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About the Role
A global cards & payments firm seeks a UAT Tester for a leading bank in Doha, Qatar. You will lead User Acceptance Testing for card launches, enhancements, and compliance changes. Requires 5-8+ years experience in card product UAT and hands-on CMS experience.
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Responsibilities
- Plan and execute UAT, translating business requirements into test scenarios and test cases
- Validate end to end transaction flows across CMS, switching, scheme connectivity, and partner systems
- Log, triage, and track defects through to closure with regression testing
- Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, QA engineers, and business users
- Produce UAT execution reports, traceability matrices, and secure business sign off
- Review and decompose Business Requirement Documents to derive UAT coverage
Requirements
- 5 8+ years of experience in UAT for card products
- Hands on experience with Card Management Systems (Way4, TSYS PRIME, or equivalent)
- Experience with defect management using Azure DevOps and/or JIRA
- Domain expertise in card lifecycle management (Credit, Debit, Prepaid)
- Strong analytical and problem solving mindset
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
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Role Overview
- Our client, a Global Cards & Payments firm, is engaged with a leading bank in Qatar and is seeking to onboard a UAT Tester.
- The candidate will play a central role in safeguarding the quality of card products that millions of customers rely on every day.
- Joining a high performing Cards & Payments delivery team at a leading regional bank, the candidate will lead User Acceptance Testing across new card launches, CVP enhancements, and compliance driven changes.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute UAT (≈40%): Translate business requirements into structured test scenarios, test cases, and test data covering card issuance, authorisations, settlements, disputes, rewards/loyalty, and adjacent card functionalities.
- Validate end to end transaction flows (≈25%): Run integrated testing across CMS, switching, scheme connectivity, and partner systems for ATM, POS, and e commerce transactions.
- Manage defects and retest (≈15%): Log, triage, and track defects through to closure, with disciplined regression testing post fix.
- Coordinate stakeholders (≈10%): Partner with Business Analysts, Developers, QA engineers, and business users to keep test cycles moving and unblock issues quickly.
- Report and obtain sign off (≈10%): Produce clear UAT execution reports, traceability matrices, and secure formal business sign off ahead of release.
- Review and decompose Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and functional specifications to derive complete, traceable UAT coverage.
- Design and maintain UAT test scenarios, test cases, and test data for card issuance, transaction processing, settlements, disputes, rewards & loyalty, and other card functionalities.
- Validate end to end card transaction flows across multiple systems (CMS, authorisation, clearing & settlement, scheme networks, and partner integrations).
- Document, track, and close defects using Azure DevOps (and/or JIRA), maintaining a clean audit trail of artefacts and test evidence.
- Execute regression testing following defect fixes and release candidates, ensuring no regression of in life card functionality.
- Ensure compliance with card scheme mandates and prevailing banking and regulatory requirements relevant to card products.
- Prepare UAT execution reports, requirement traceability matrices, and secure formal business signoff prior to production release.
Knowledge and Experience
- Domain expertise: Card lifecycle management across Credit, Debit, and Prepaid; transaction acquiring and processing across ATM, POS, and e commerce; settlement and reconciliation; chargebacks and disputes; fraud management.
- Testing expertise: UAT planning and execution, CVP validation, partner integration testing, test case design, defect management, regression testing, requirement traceability, and test reporting.
- Tools & platforms: JIRA, Azure DevOps; Card Management Systems such as Way4 and TSYS PRIME; familiarity with core payment processing platforms and Mastercard/Visa scheme connectivity.
- Regulatory & compliance awareness: Working understanding of card scheme rules and banking compliance obligations applicable in the GCC / Qatar context.
- Soft skills & leadership: Strong analytical and problem solving mindset; clear written and verbal communication; ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders under release pressure; pragmatic ownership of quality outcomes; collaborative, candid, and team oriented working style with a bias for action
Mandatory Skills
- Card product UAT experience across issuance, transaction processing, settlement, and disputes.
- CMS hands on experience (Way4, TSYS PRIME, or equivalent).
- Defect management using Azure DevOps and/or JIRA.
- Requirement traceability and UAT reporting discipline with demonstrable business sign off ownership.
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