Payments Domain QA Lead — Expert Test Architect (SARIE)

Focus Infotech; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Infotech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks an expert Payments Domain Test SME/Lead to drive testing across critical payment platforms. You will guide end-to-end validation, regression, and certification testing for SARIE, RTGS, SWIFT, ISO 20022, and SADAD architectures.

Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in payment software testing, strong API testing skills, and a track record in regulatory compliance. Leadership and collaboration with vendors and stakeholders are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 8 to 12+ years of professional software testing experience in payments domain.
• Deep expertise in SARIE, RTGS, SWIFT, ISO 20022, and SADAD testing.
• Strong experience in end-to-end testing, API testing, regression testing, and UAT.
• Proven background in regulatory, compliance, and financial certification testing frameworks.
• Excellent defect management and analytical problem solving.
• Strong communication skills with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and execute comprehensive payment test scenarios, scripts, and cases for complex financial systems.
• Validate end-to-end payment flows across multiple banking channels and integration points.
• Perform testing for SARIE, RTGS, SWIFT, ISO 20022, and SADAD payment processes.
• Support regulatory, certification, and financial compliance testing activities.
• Manage defect lifecycles, coordinate retesting, track root-cause resolutions.
• Execute rigorous regression testing cycles to ensure stability after updates.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, payment vendors, and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks and API testing routines for payment validation.
• Author test strategy documents, traceability matrices, test reports, and sign-offs.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior testers.

Skills

Payments domain testing

API testing

UAT

Defect management

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory testing

Automation testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Finance

Tools

Selenium

Postman

SoapUI

Tosca

CI/CD

Job description

Focus Infotech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks an expert Payments Domain Test SME/Lead to drive testing across critical payment platforms. You will guide end-to-end validation, regression, and certification testing for SARIE, RTGS, SWIFT, ISO 20022, and SADAD architectures.

Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in payment software testing, strong API testing skills, and a track record in regulatory compliance. Leadership and collaboration with vendors and stakeholders are essential.