The Card Issuance Testing Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of card payment systems by executing comprehensive functional, integration, and security testing across the full card lifecycle. The role utilizes industry simulators, defect‑management tools, and compliance standards to validate authorization, clearing, and settlement workflows.
Responsibilities• Conduct comprehensive testing of card systems, including authorization, tokenization, and settlement workflows.
• Monitor and validate card lifecycle management, clearing (Visa, IPIN files), and settlement processes to ensure smooth operations.
• Utilize VISA and MasterCard simulators for authorization, validation, and compliance testing.
• Apply expertise in functional, integration, and security testing to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Ensure adherence to PCI-DSS standards and best practices for secure payment processing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support SDLC processes and maintain high-quality standards at each stage.
• Use JIRA or other defect management tools for tracking, documenting, and reporting defects.
• Stay updated with the latest industry standards, tools, and regulations related to card payment systems.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or business information systems (BIS) or a related technology field.
Experience:
• 1 – 2 years FINTECH or banking systems or card management platforms.
Knowledge/Skills:
• Proven experience in testing card payment systems and related workflows.
• Strong understanding of transaction flows, card lifecycle, clearing, and settlement processes.
• Relevant testing certifications such as ISTQB Foundation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of payment simulators (Visa, MasterCard) and testing tools.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
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What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
