UAT Tester

Job Title: UAT Tester- Cards & Payments

Term: 12 months

Location: Doha, Qatar

Division: Cards & Payments- Technology Delivery

Reports to: Head of Cards Technology/ QA & UAT Lead

Relevant 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

Mandatory requirements:

• Hands-on UAT experience on card issuance, transaction processing, settlement, disputes, and rewards/loyalty across Credit, Debit, and Prepaid products.
• Working proficiency with a Card Management System (CMS) - e.g., Way4, TSYS PRIME, or equivalent market-standard platform.
• Proficiency with defect?management tooling (Azure DevOps and/or JIRA).
• Professional proficiency in English (Arabic an advantage)
• Immediately available and able to work on-site in Doha

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

You 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, you'll 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. It's a role where careful, evidence-based testing translates directly into customer trust, regulatory confidence, and faster, more confident product releases - and where you'll build deep cross-functional expertise across the full card lifecycle.

Key Activities

• 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.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 (indicative)

• 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 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 and disciplined delivery.

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