UAT Tester – Cards & Payments

Location: Doha, Qatar (On-site)

Duration: 12 Months (Extendable)

Description:

Please apply only if you are open to relocating and working onsite in Doha, Qatar for a minimum of 12 months. Candidates already in Qatar with a valid work permit are encouraged to apply.

We are hiring a UAT Tester to work on a project for one of our clients, a leading regional bank. This is a hands-on testing role inside a busy cards and payments delivery team, and it is squarely for people who have tested card products before, not general software QA professionals looking to move into the domain.

You will lead User Acceptance Testing across new card launches, changes to existing card propositions, and compliance-driven updates. The job is to make sure that what reaches the customer is reliable, compliant, and works exactly as intended, backed by clean, evidence-based testing. It sits at the point where careful testing turns directly into customer trust, regulatory confidence, and faster, more confident releases.

We are looking for someone with 5 to 8 years of UAT or QA experience in banking and payments, with real delivery on card products behind them.

The work itself

Planning and running UAT is the core of the role. You will take business requirements and turn them into structured test scenarios, test cases, and test data covering the full spread of card functionality: issuance, authorisations, settlements, disputes, and rewards or loyalty.

A large part of the job is validating transactions end to end. You will run integrated testing across the card management system, switching, scheme connectivity, and partner systems, covering ATM, POS, and e-commerce journeys, making sure a transaction behaves correctly at every hop.

Defect management runs throughout. You will log, triage, and track defects through to closure, and run disciplined regression testing after every fix and release candidate so that nothing already working quietly breaks.

You will keep test cycles moving by working closely with business analysts, developers, QA engineers, and business users, unblocking issues quickly when they surface.

Finally, you will produce the evidence that lets a release go live: clear UAT execution reports, requirement traceability matrices, and formal sign-off before anything reaches production. That includes making sure launch dependencies such as card profiles, limits, KYC and AML flows, settlement, and fee structures are all delivered and tested to specification.

What you need to have

Mandatory:

• 5 to 8 years in UAT or QA testing within banking and payments, with demonstrable delivery on card product launches, enhancements, and compliance-driven changes
• Hands-on UAT experience across card issuance, transaction processing, settlement, disputes, and rewards or loyalty, spanning credit, debit, and prepaid products
• Working proficiency with a Card Management System such as Way4, TSYS PRIME, or an equivalent market-standard platform
• Proficiency with defect-management tooling: Azure DevOps and/or JIRA
• Requirement traceability and UAT reporting discipline, with a track record of owning business sign-off
• Professional proficiency in English
• Immediately available and able to work onsite in Doha

Preferred:

• Arabic language ability
• Exposure to clearing and settlement, reconciliation, chargebacks, and fraud management
• Familiarity with card-scheme rules and banking compliance obligations, ideally in a GCC context

The kind of tester we want

You should be able to take a business requirements document apart and turn it into complete, traceable test coverage, so nothing gets tested by accident and nothing important gets missed. You should be comfortable across the full card lifecycle, from issuance through to how transactions clear, settle, and get disputed, and you should understand why compliance and scheme rules matter to a card release rather than treating them as boxes to tick. Just as important is temperament: the discipline to keep a clean audit trail of test evidence, and the ability to hold your nerve and keep stakeholders moving when a release is under time pressure.

What success looks like

• Very few defects slipping through to production after a card release
• A tight, predictable path from the start of UAT to business sign-off
• Full traceability, with business requirements mapped to the test cases that cover them
• Defects closed quickly and verified, not left hanging
• Releases that pass UAT first time, without major rework
• A quiet launch window, with minimal customer-impacting issues after go-live