Senior Test Analyst

Quick Facts

• 3 days onsite in Alpharetta, GA
• 7 positions
• Tenure: until 12/31/27

Description

Senior Test Analyst role delivering hands-on functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing for banking/payment systems. You will create test strategy and plans, develop and execute detailed scenarios and test cases, and lead defect triage, retesting, and root-cause validation. The role also coordinates daily testing across offshore team members and provides status, metrics, and release-readiness reporting.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Design test strategy and test plan; estimate and track testing efforts
• Develop, review, and execute detailed test scenarios and test cases based on functional requirements and banking workflows
• Coordinate defect triage with developers and business/test teams; prioritize and drive resolution
• Conduct defect retesting, regression validation, and root cause investigation
• Prepare test data, validate test environments, and troubleshoot testing dependencies
• Coordinate day-to-day testing activities across offshore team members to meet deliverables on time
• Communicate testing progress, defects, blockers, and quality risks with the Test Lead
• Provide test execution status, defect metrics, and regression results for release readiness
• Prepare test closure/summary reports and daily/weekly status reports

Requirements

• 7–10 years of hands-on software QA experience; experience coordinating testing activities within a QA team
• Strong knowledge of card processing, payments, and customer servicing systems (TS2, card lifecycle management, account servicing, card issuance and replacements, authorization, settlement, transaction research, fraud blocks, back-office operations, customer service workflows)
• Experience testing fraud, transaction defense, dispute, and chargeback solutions (fraud monitoring, fraud case management, rule validation, transaction reviews, chargeback processing, representments, merchant interactions, network compliance validation)
• Strong proficiency in backend data validation and integration testing using SQL and API testing (Postman), including validation of data synchronization across customer service applications, payment platforms, fraud systems, and downstream services
• Experience with data migration/conversion and cloud migration testing, including source-to-target validation, data reconciliation, verification of customer/account/card/transaction data, end-to-end process validation, and familiarity with AWS for on-premises-to-cloud migration
• Strong understanding of ISO 8583 message formats and payment interchange protocols (MTIs, bitmaps, data elements)
• Packet and protocol testing experience using Soap Sonar/ WSDL Weaver to verify correct serialization/deserialization across secure network channels
• Experience with data synchronization and source-to-target validation, including data lake/data-processing validation
• Hands-on REST/SOAP API testing using Postman, SoapUI, Thunder Client, or similar tools
• Experience with web UI testing (functional validation and integration testing)
• Ability to understand automation scripts, analyze execution results, and troubleshoot failures
• Strong experience with defect identification, triage, defect lifecycle management, and retesting
• Experience using Jira or similar defect and test management tools
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC, and STLC
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently on complex testing scenarios while coordinating offshore team execution