UAT Tester - Cards & Payments X 2 - Qatar

UAT Tester – Cards & Payments X 2 - Qatar

Experience Junior (0-5 years) | Mid Level (6-10 years)

Est. Start August 5, 2026

Duration 12 Months

Global Payments Firm

Qatar

United Arab Emirates

Oman

Required Skills User Acceptance Testing Card Product Management Transaction Processing Integration Testing Defect Management Regression Testing

Project Overview

Requirement description

Our client, a Global Payments Firm, is currently carrying out a project for a leading regional bank in Qatar. To support with this, our client is looking to onboard UAT Testers – Cards & Payments to join their Cards & Payments Technology Delivery team.

The individual 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, they will lead User Acceptance Testing across new card launches, Customer Value Proposition (CVP) enhancements, and compliance-driven changes — making sure what reaches the customer is reliable, compliant, and genuinely valuable.

The ideal candidates will have 5–8 years in UAT / QA testing within banking and payments, with demonstrable delivery on card product launches, card enhancements, and compliance-driven card programs.

Roles & 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 on, and ongoing optimization -ensuring all launch dependencies (card profiles, limits, KYC/AML flows, settlement, fee structures) are delivered on time and to specification.
• 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 sign-off prior to production release.

KPIs:

• Defect leakage to production — minimise post-release defects per card release (UAT effectiveness.)
• UAT cycle time — time from UAT entry to business sign-off, benchmarked against comparable card-release cadences.
• Test coverage and traceability — % of business requirements covered by traceable UAT cases.
• Defect closure cycle time — average time from defect logging to verified closure.First-time-right releases — % of releases passing UAT without major rework.
• Customer-impacting issues post go-live — incidents within the hypercare window, as a quality-of-release signal that directly supports customer trust and continued product adoption.

Knowledge & Experience:

• 5–8 years in UAT / QA testing within banking and payments, with demonstrable delivery on card product launches, card enhancements, and compliance-driven card programs.
• 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 card-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 and disciplined delivery.

Mandatory Skills:

• Hands-on UAT experience on card issuance, transaction processing, settlement, disputes, and rewards/loyalty across Credit, Debit, and Prepaid products.
• Professional proficiency in English (Arabic an advantage).
• 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.

This is a 12-month contractual role, extendable subject to programme needs, based on-site in Doha, Qatar.