Testing Associate

 Plan and execute UAT for initiatives impacting regulatory reporting, aligning outcomes to documented requirements and acceptance criteria.
•    Translate business requirements into test scenarios and cases, maintaining traceability and executing functional, end-to-end, regression, and negative testing.
•    Develop and maintain automated test suites to improve coverage, repeatability, and cycle time, integrating automation into the UAT lifecycle with technology partners.
•    Manage defects end-to-end by producing high-quality evidence, triaging with technology and analysts, validating fixes, and confirming closure against expected results.
•    Coordinate test readiness across stakeholders, including environments, test data creation, schedules, and go/no-go inputs.
•    Produce audit-ready test artefacts (plans, scripts, evidence packs, execution reporting) and ensure documentation supports control expectations.
•    Escalate risks promptly when scope, quality, dependencies, or timelines are at risk, applying strong ownership and delivery discipline.

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities :

•    Associate-level experience delivering end-to-end UAT in regulated environments, including manual testing and automated testing
•    Working knowledge of payments systems (initiation, routing, clearing/settlement, investigations/repair, cut-offs, exceptions) and upstream/downstream dependencies
•    Knowledge of global regulatory reporting expectations, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, data lineage, reconciliations, and controlled change management
•    Strong analytical and communication skills to interpret requirements, write clear test cases, validate outcomes using data/evidence, and manage competing priorities.

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities :

•    Experience testing payments products across geographies, currencies, and schemes in high-volume or time-critical environments
•    Experience supporting change delivery for regulatory reporting programmes or data quality initiatives
•    Familiarity with Agile delivery, CI/CD-aligned testing, and automation-first quality approaches
•    Exposure to operational risk, audit, or control testing expectations in financial services