Manual Tester

About the role:

We are seeking a highly detail-oriented and experienced Payment Switch Manual Tester to join our Quality Assurance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for rigorously testing and validating the functionality, reliability, and security of our core payment switch system, ensuring flawless transaction processing and compliance with all industry standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Planning & Design: Analyze payment switch requirements, technical specifications, and user stories to create comprehensive test plans, detailed test scenarios, and manual test cases.
• Test Execution: Execute functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing on the payment switch and related systems
• Transaction Flow Validation: Manually validate various payment transaction lifecycles, including authorization, clearing, settlement, and chargebacks for credit/debit cards, prepaid cards, and other payment methods.
• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track defects and inconsistencies using defect management tools (JIRA) and work closely with development teams to ensure timely solution.
• Protocol & Scheme Testing: Test and validate messages and protocols ( ISO 8583, SWIFT) and ensure compliance with card scheme mandates (Visa, Mastercard, RuPay).
• API Testing: Perform manual testing of APIs (REST/SOAP) related to payment processing, ensuring correct data validation, security, and error handling
• Data Validation: Execute SQL queries for backend database validation to ensure data integrity and consistency across the transaction lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, provide testing estimates, and communicate test status and risks to stakeholders.
• Documentation: Prepare and maintain detailed test reports, test summary reports, and other necessary QA documentation.

Required Experience & Skills

• 3+ years of proven experience in manual software testing.
• 3+ years of direct experience testing Payment Switch systems, Card Management Systems.
• Strong understanding of the Payments Domain and the end-to-end transaction lifecycle (Authorization, Clearing, Settlement).
• In-depth knowledge of payment industry standards and protocols, such as ISO 8583.
• Proficiency in designing and executing various types of manual tests (Functional, Regression).
• Unix/Linux – Comfortable with command-line tools, log analysis.
• Experience with testing tools for APIs ( Postman, SoapUI) and defect tracking (JIRA).
• Solid skills in writing and executing SQL queries for data validation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal).

Interview Process -

• Screening
• Virtual L1 interview
• Managerial Round
• HR Discussion