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Location:
Karachi, Pakistan
Department: Analyst
Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering:

  • Engage with business users, product teams, and stakeholders to gather and document functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Develop business requirement documents (BRD), functional specifications (FRS), and process flow diagrams.
  • Analyze and document cash management, liquidity, and payments workflows, identifying gaps and improvement areas.
  • Collaborate with IT teams to define API integrations, payment processing rules, and system configurations.
  • Ensure compliance with banking regulations, ISO 20022 messaging, and payments security standards.

Test Planning & Strategy:

  • Develop a test strategy and create a detailed test plan for system, integration, and UAT testing.
  • Work with business users and IT teams to define test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria based on business requirements.
  • Ensure that test cases cover functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end payment processing workflows.

Test Case Development & Approval:

  • Create detailed test cases covering various scenarios, including:
  • Corporate Payments (ACH, SWIFT, SEPA, RTGS, FPS, instant payments, cross-border payments)
  • Liquidity Management (cash pooling, sweeping, notional pooling)
  • Virtual Account Management (VAM)
  • Transaction Reconciliation & Reporting
  • Payment Gateway Integrations & API Transactions
  • Get test cases reviewed and signed off by business users and stakeholders before execution.

Test Execution & Defect Management:

  • Execute test cases as per the approved test plan and document results.
  • Identify, log, and track defects and issues using testing tools such as JIRA, HP ALM, or equivalent.
  • Work with developers and IT teams to prioritize, resolve, and retest defects.
  • Perform root cause analysis for defects to improve system quality.

UAT Coordination & Testing Run Plan:

  • Develop a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plan, including:
  • Test case selection and prioritization
  • Defining roles and responsibilities for business users during UAT
  • Setting up test environments and data preparation
  • Coordinate with business teams to schedule and execute UAT cycles.
  • Provide training and guidance to business users for UAT execution.
  • Monitor UAT progress, consolidate feedback, and report test results.
  • Ensure all UAT defects are logged, tracked, and resolved before go-live.

Regulatory & Compliance Testing:

  • Ensure that the system meets compliance requirements for AML, KYC, PSD2, PCI DSS, and Open Banking standards.
  • Validate ISO 20022-based payment messaging and regulatory reporting functionalities.
  • Conduct security testing to identify potential vulnerabilities in payments processing.

Post-Implementation Support:

  • Monitor system performance post-go-live and validate real-time transactions.
  • Work with business teams to address post-implementation issues and enhancements.
  • Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to operations teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, IT, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Tester in Banking, Payments, or Cash Management projects.
  • Strong knowledge of corporate cash management solutions, including:
  • Liquidity Management (cash pooling, sweeping, notional pooling)
  • Virtual Account Management (VAM)
  • Corporate Payments (ACH, SWIFT, SEPA, RTGS, FPS, instant payments, cross-border payments)
  • CASA (Current Account Savings Account) structures
  • Experience with banking payment systems such as Oracle systems Finastra, , FIS, Fiserv, or similar platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with payment gateways, SWIFT, ISO 20022 messaging, and Open Banking APIs.
  • Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements for payments and banking transactions.
  • Experience in testing tools like Azure Dev ops, JIRA, HP ALM, Selenium, Postman (for API testing), or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of SQL queries for data validation is a plus.
  • Certifications in Business Analysis (CBAP) or Testing (ISTQB) are a plus.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person

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