Senior QA Analyst (Payments)

At Expleo, we're looking for an experienced Senior QA Analyst with a strong background in banking payments to join our growing financial services practice. This is a high-impact role where you'll be responsible for assuring the quality of mission-critical payment platforms and services used by leading financial institutions.

You'll work within an Agile delivery environment, collaborating closely with Business Analysts, Product Owners, Developers, and Payments SMEs to ensure solutions are delivered to the highest standards of quality, compliance, and operational excellence.

If you're passionate about payments, understand the complexities of SWIFT and SEPA transactions, and enjoy solving challenging problems within regulated banking environments, we'd love to hear from you.

• Design, develop, and execute high-quality test plans, test cases, and test scripts for payments applications and services
• Validate end-to-end payment processing across SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT), SEPA Direct Debit (SDD), and SWIFT payment flows
• Analyse complex business requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure testability and quality coverage
• Execute functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing activities
• Perform API testing using Postman and validate interfaces between multiple banking systems and third-party providers
• Participate in defect triage sessions, driving resolution and challenging severity assessments where appropriate
• Work closely with Scrum teams to support successful delivery throughout the software development lifecycle
• Validate payment processing rules, message formats, settlement workflows, and exception handling scenarios
• Ensure testing activities align with payment regulations, compliance obligations, and industry standards
• Produce test execution reports, quality metrics, and defect analysis for programme stakeholders
• Mentor junior testers and contribute to building testing best practices across delivery teams
• Escalate risks, issues, and quality concerns appropriately to ensure timely resolution
• Support test management activities including planning, estimation, and release readiness assessments

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• ISTQB Foundation Certification (Essential)
• Additional Quality Assurance, Payments, or Banking certifications would be advantageous

• Experience working with ISO 20022 messaging standards
• Exposure to payment hubs, clearing systems, or core banking platforms
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent frameworks
• SQL experience and ability to interrogate databases for testing purposes
• Experience performing non-functional testing activities
• Previous experience working on large-scale banking transformation programmes
• Additional certifications in Payments, Banking Operations, or Quality Assurance

• Minimum 5 years' experience in Software Quality Assurance or Test Analysis roles
• Strong industry experience within Banking and Payments environments
• Excellent knowledge of payment products, payment processing, and payments infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience with SEPA Credit Transfers (SCT), SEPA Direct Debits (SDD), and SWIFT payment schemes
• Strong understanding of payment lifecycles, message processing, settlement, reconciliation, and exception management
• Knowledge of payments compliance, regulatory frameworks, and relevant industry standards
• Hands-on API testing experience using Postman
• Experience utilising JIRA and Xray for test management and defect tracking
• Strong analytical, investigation, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies
• Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across business and technology teams

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.