UAT Tester / QA Analyst - FCC Systems
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About the Role
Capitex seeks a UAT Tester / QA Analyst for Financial Crime Compliance systems, focusing on Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk Rating modules. The role involves planning, designing, and executing UAT to ensure TM scenarios, alert logic, and sanctions screening configurations meet regulatory expectations.
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Responsibilities
- Develop UAT test strategies, test plans, and entry/exit criteria for TM and CRR system implementations or upgrades
- Translate TM typologies into testable scenarios
- Execute test scripts covering alert generation, case creation, scenario tuning, and false positive/false negative analysis
- Validate CRR scoring logic across customer risk factors
- Test sanctions and watchlist screening configurations
- Log defects, track remediation, and re test fixes through to closure
- Prepare UAT test cases, traceability matrices, and defect logs
- Produce UAT summary reports and sign off packs
- Liaise with Compliance, IT, and vendor teams
- Support business users during UAT sign off sessions and training
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML/CFT, or compliance technology testing
- Hands on experience with UAT for Transaction Monitoring or Customer Risk Rating systems
- Solid understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, KYC/CDD/EDD processes, and sanctions screening (OFAC, UN, EU)
- Familiarity with SAR/STR filing processes and typology based scenario design
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Job Summary
- The UAT Tester / QA Analyst is responsible for planning, designing, and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Transaction Monitoring (TM) systems and related Customer Risk Rating (CRR) modules.
- This role ensures that TM scenarios, alert generation logic, scoring rules, and watchlist/sanctions screening configurations perform as intended before go live, in full alignment with regulatory expectations (e.g., FATF Recommendations, OFAC, UN sanctions regimes, and local regulator guidance such a
- The role bridges compliance requirements and technical system behavior, translating regulatory and business rules into structured, evidence based test cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop UAT test strategies, test plans, and entry/exit criteria for TM and CRR system implementations or upgrades.
- Define UAT prerequisites, including test data readiness, environment configuration, and access provisioning.
- Translate TM typologies (e.g., structuring, layering, rapid movement of funds, high risk jurisdiction activity) into testable scenarios.
- Design boundary and edge case testing to validate threshold logic, scoring bands, and rule sensitivity/specificity.
- Execute test scripts covering alert generation, case creation, scenario tuning, and false positive/false negative analysis.
- Validate CRR scoring logic across customer risk factors (e.g., geography, product, channel, PEP status, occupation).
- Test sanctions and watchlist screening configurations, including fuzzy matching logic and SDN/UN list updates.
- Log defects, track remediation, and re test fixes through to closure, maintaining a full audit trail.
- Prepare UAT test cases, traceability matrices (linking requirements to test cases), and defect logs.
- Document test evidence sufficient to withstand internal audit and regulatory review.
- Produce UAT summary reports and sign off packs for stakeholder and governance approval.
- Liaise with Compliance, IT, and vendor teams to clarify requirements and resolve testing issues.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML/CFT, or compliance technology testing.
- Hands on experience with UAT for Transaction Monitoring or Customer Risk Rating systems.
- Solid understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, KYC/CDD/EDD processes, and sanctions screening (OFAC, UN, EU).
- Familiarity with SAR/STR filing processes and typology based scenario design.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with TM/CRR platforms (e.g., Actimize, SAS AML, Oracle Mantas, Norkom, or similar).
- Exposure to test management tools (e.g., JIRA, ALM, TestRail) and structured defect tracking processes.
- Prior consulting or advisory experience delivering client facing UAT or compliance technology deliverables.
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