Test Analyst (3+ Years) - Remote - Quality Assurance Debit, Pre Pay and Credit Card Issuing
Job title Test Analyst
Department Testing / Quality Assurance Debit, Pre Pay and Credit Card Issuing
Employment type Full time
Role overview: The Test Analyst is responsible for the end-to-end testing of all new credit card client onboardings, ensuring that card products, processing configurations, and associated services meet Art Technology’s quality standards before go‑live.
Skills & experience needed
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience testing credit card products and services, ideally within a card issuing, processing, or payments environment.
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in Testing roles OR Software Engineering roles.
- Strong understanding of the credit card client onboarding lifecycle, including product configuration, card scheme rules, and processing workflows. Good understanding of payments industry standards, card scheme requirements, and regulatory/compliance considerations.
- Hands‑on experience designing and executing manual and functional test cases, test scripts, and test plans using platforms like Jira.
- Hands‑on with Testing Lifecycle to support BDD framework of requirement definitions and creating Testing suites for technology team to consume and build Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing.
- Help business users write and execute user acceptance test scripts in Jira. Review failed tests and clarify expected behaviour with developer.
- Working experience with core office tools, such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and other common collaboration tools.
- Working experience in sandbox testing environment and processing mock data through payment simulator.
- Experience in API testing, user interface and web‑based systems testing. Ability to validate backend services, endpoints, and data payloads using Postman.
- Good understanding of SQL, ITSM toolsets and software monitoring tools.
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to work across multiple concurrent client testing streams and prioritise effectively.
- Clear communicator, comfortable liaising with clients, project teams, and internal stakeholders on testing status and outcomes.
- Compliance and Regulatory Focus - Regulatory Alignment, Data Security, Audit Readiness: Maintain clear traceability matrices from business needs to final code delivery.
- AI and automation usage to speed up and increase the test coverage. Will need to identify opportunities to use specific tooling to increase test execution and capacity.
Professional qualifications needed
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- ISTQB/ISEB Foundation or Higher certification.
- CTAL-TA (Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Analyst) certification is often preferred.
Technical responsibilities of the role
- Customer / client centricity
- Act as the tester for new credit card clients being onboarded, ensuring their requirements are understood and reflected in test coverage.
- Support client‑facing UAT activity, helping clients validate their card products and resolving queries raised during testing.
- Data & reporting
- Produce clear, accurate test summary reports, defect logs, and test coverage metrics for each client onboarding.
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders on testing progress, risks, and outstanding issues.
- Industry knowledge
- Maintain awareness of card scheme (Visa/Mastercard) rules, payments industry standards, and regulatory changes that may affect test scope.
- Bring external perspective and leading‑practice testing approaches into the team's ways of working.
- Planning & prioritisation
- Plan and prioritise test activities across multiple concurrent credit card client onboarding to meet agreed go‑live dates.
- Organise test cycles, environments, and data in line with project and release plans.
- Continuous improvement using AI and other automation tooling.
- Product knowledge
- Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of Art Technology’s credit card products, processing platform, and configuration options.
- Stay up to date with new product features and releases, understanding their impact on existing test packs.
- Quality & controls
- Design, execute, and maintain manual and functional test cases covering client‑specific card configurations and processing scenarios.
- Ensure all testing is conducted in line with Art Technology’s quality assurance standards, governance, and audit requirements.
- Identify, log, and manage defects through to resolution, escalating risks to quality or timelines as needed.
Leadership responsibilities
- Developing skills
- Seek opportunities to enable your own continuous development and support learning of others.
- Fostering teamwork
- Work effectively with colleagues in and out of your team to deliver business priorities.
- Communicating with impact
- Communicate clearly, using the appropriate channels.
- Delivering results
- Agree, capture and manage your personal goals to ensure delivery.
Values & core behaviours
- Own it and deliver
- Take responsibility for your own performance and being successful in your role.
- Collaborate Purposefully
- Build trusted relationships with colleagues, supporting activities, and being successful together.
- Think differently
- Ask questions to check understanding and share your ideas to support continuous improvement.
- Act courageously
- Step out of your comfort zone and embrace change to help you learn and grow.
Career Pathways
- Previous roles
- Junior Test Analyst
- Graduate / Associate Test Analyst
- Stretch roles
- Senior Test Analyst
- Test Lead
- Accelerate roles
- Test Manager
- Business Analyst (Payments)