Senior Payments QA Engineer

Saudi Networkers Services

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Posted on: 28 Sep 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nationality: Any Nationality
Salary: Not Specified
Gender: Not Specified
Arabic Fluency: Not Specified
Job Function: IT - Software & Web Development
Company Industry: IT, Software & Internet Services

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Payments QA Engineer with deep expertise in banking and financial services, particularly within payment systems (SWIFT, RTGS, ACH, ISO 20022, card payments). The role requires a strong background in test automation, functional/non-functional testing, and end-to-end validation of payment applications, ensuring compliance, security, and reliability of high-value financial transactions.

• Lead QA activities across payment applications, ensuring full coverage of functional, integration, performance, and regression testing.
• Design and implement comprehensive test strategies, plans, and scripts for payment platforms and related banking systems.
• Validate end-to-end payment flows including SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTGS, ACH, cross-border, and card-based transactions.
• Collaborate closely with business analysts, developers, and product owners to understand requirements and translate them into effective test cases.
• Ensure compliance with banking standards, regulatory requirements, and security protocols.
• Drive automation strategy for payments testing, utilizing industry-leading tools and frameworks.
• Conduct root cause analysis of defects, ensuring timely resolution and minimal production impact.
• Mentor junior QA team members, promoting best practices in quality engineering and test automation.
• Provide detailed test reporting, defect metrics, and continuous quality improvement recommendations to stakeholders.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 6–10 years of QA experience in the banking/financial services sector, with at least 3 years specializing in payments domain.
• Strong expertise in payment systems (SWIFT, RTGS, ACH, SEPA, ISO 20022, card schemes).
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, JMeter, Postman, etc.).
• Good knowledge of API testing, message queues, and middleware validation.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance (PCI-DSS, PSD2, AML, KYC).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to work in Agile/Scrum environments.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.

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