Senior Test Analyst with Cards and Payment Exp

* 7 -10 years of hands-on software QA experience, including experience coordinating testing activities within a QA team.

* Strong knowledge of card processing, payments, and customer servicing systems, including TS2, card lifecycle management, account servicing, card issuance and replacements, authorization processing, settlement, transaction research, fraud blocks, back-office operations, and customer service workflows.
* Experience testing fraud, transaction defense, dispute, and chargeback solutions, including fraud monitoring, fraud case management, rule validation, transaction reviews, chargeback processing, representments, merchant interactions, and network compliance validation.
* Strong proficiency in backend data validation and integration testing, including SQL-based data verification, API testing using Postman, and validation of data synchronization across customer service applications, payment platforms, fraud systems, and downstream services.
* Experience with data migration, conversion, and cloud migration testing, including source-to-target validation, data reconciliation, customer/account/card/transaction data verification, end-to-end business process validation, and familiarity with AWS environments supporting on-premises-to-cloud migration initiatives.
* Strong understanding of ISO 8583 message formats and payment interchange protocols. Demonstrate good understanding of the ISO 8583 standard to validate financial transaction card-originated messages, including MTIs, bitmaps, and data elements
* Packet & Protocol Testing: Understanding deep Packet Testing using Soap Sonar/ WSDL Weaver to ensure data integrity during transmission. You will verify that "packed" and "unpacked" data fields are correctly serialized and deserialized across secure network channels.
* Experience of Data synchronization and source-to-target validation, Data Lake/data-processing validation
* Strong hands-on experience in REST/SOAP API testing using Postman, SoapUI, Thunder Client, or similar tools.
* Experience in web UI testing, including functional validation and integration testing.
* Ability to understand automation scripts, analyze execution results, and troubleshoot failures.
* Strong experience in defect identification, defect triage, defect lifecycle management, and retesting.
* Experience with Jira or similar defects and test management tools.
* Good understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to work independently on complex testing scenarios while supporting offshore team coordination.

Years of Experience:    7.00 - 10.00 Years of Experience