Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for new releases, enhancements, and patches.
• Perform functional, regression, and integration testing to validate the readiness prior to production deployment.
• Track defects and ensure timely resolution in coordination with development and vendor teams.
• Develop, document, and execute comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for new releases, system enhancements, patches, and configuration changes.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, user acceptance, and end-to-end testing to validate system readiness before production deployment.
• Test core banking applications and related banking systems, including customer accounts, deposits, loans, payments, transfers, cards, treasury, trade finance, and digital banking channels.
• Validate transaction processing, financial calculations, interest calculations, fees, commissions, limits, exchange rates, and accounting entries.
• Verify integration between core banking systems and external or supporting platforms such as payment gateways, SWIFT, ATM/POS systems, card management systems, mobile banking, internet banking, CRM, AML, and regulatory reporting systems.
• Ensure that banking transactions are processed accurately across different channels and that all corresponding general ledger entries are correctly generated.
• Perform API, database, interface, and batch-processing validation to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across integrated systems.
• Test daily, monthly, quarterly, and year-end banking processes, including End-of-Day and Beginning-of-Day operations.
• Validate customer onboarding, Know Your Customer requirements, account opening, account maintenance, transaction authorization, and approval workflows.
• Test role-based access controls, user permissions, segregation of duties, maker-checker controls, and transaction approval limits.
• Verify compliance with internal banking policies, security requirements, audit controls, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects using the approved defect-management tools.
• Coordinate with development teams, application support teams, business users, vendors, and project stakeholders to investigate and resolve defects.
• Perform defect retesting and regression testing to confirm that fixes have been implemented successfully without affecting existing functionality.
• Prepare test execution reports, defect summaries, test coverage reports, and release-readiness assessments for management review.
• Participate in requirement reviews, solution-design discussions, change-request assessments, and release-planning activities.
• Review business and functional requirements to identify gaps, inconsistencies, risks, and testability concerns at an early stage.
• Support User Acceptance Testing by preparing test scenarios, assisting business users, monitoring execution, and documenting results.
• Validate data migration, data conversion, reconciliation, and interface mapping during system upgrades and implementation projects.
• Perform production smoke testing and post-deployment validation to confirm that critical banking services are operating correctly.
• Support root-cause analysis for production incidents and recommend preventive testing measures.
• Maintain testing documentation, traceability matrices, test evidence, defect records, and sign-off documentation for audit and compliance purposes.
• Contribute to test automation initiatives for repetitive regression scenarios, critical banking transactions, and high-volume test cases.
• Ensure all testing activities are completed according to approved project timelines, quality standards, change-management processes, and release-governance procedures.

Desired Candidate Profile

Mandatory Requirement:

• Hands-on experience testing banking applications is mandatory, with a strong understanding of banking systems, business processes, and software testing best practices.
• Minimum years of experience – 3+ years