Nasspay
Payments QA & Certification Specialist
- Erbil
- Full time
- 9 hours ago
- Salary
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Dec 9, 2026
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QA/QC Engineer · Erbil
NASS is seeking a full-time Payments QA & Certification Specialist based on-site in Erbil to oversee payment system testing, defect tracking, and regulatory and card-scheme certification before go-live.
About the job
The Payments QA & Certification Specialist is responsible for ensuring that payment-system changes are fully tested, certified, documented, and ready for production before go-live. The role coordinates testing across NASS, vendors, banks, card schemes, the Central Bank of Iraq, and business teams. The specialist owns the overall payment test strategy, transaction test matrix, defect follow-up, certification evidence, and production-readiness validation.
Responsibilities
- Prepare the overall test strategy for payment-system projects.
- Define testing scope for system integration testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, certification testing, regression testing, and production-readiness testing.
- Prepare detailed payment transaction test matrices and ensure coverage of all relevant transaction types.
- Coordinate test execution between NASS, technology vendors, banks, card schemes, and CBI.
- Validate successful, declined, reversal, timeout, duplicate, retry, refund, partial-failure, communication-failure, settlement, and reconciliation scenarios.
- Ensure transaction-state behavior is correctly validated across all participating systems.
- Verify that expected results match approved business and system requirements.
- Coordinate vendor testing and review vendor test evidence.
- Coordinate NASS integration testing and UAT with business and operational users.
- Coordinate formal certification activities with CBI, card schemes, banks, technology vendors, and other relevant external parties.
- Maintain certification test cases and evidence.
- Track defects discovered during testing and classify them based on severity and business impact.
- Coordinate defect resolution with responsible vendors and internal teams and verify fixes before closure.
- Ensure adequate evidence exists before a defect is marked as resolved.
- Maintain defect registers and testing status reports and escalate testing blockers.
- Ensure regression testing is performed after major fixes or configuration changes.
- Validate end-to-end reconciliation and settlement-related scenarios where applicable.
- Participate in cutover planning and maintain production-readiness and go-live checklists.
- Confirm critical defects are resolved and operating procedures, monitoring, support, escalation, and rollback procedures are available before go-live.
- Coordinate final go-live readiness review and support hypercare and post-production validation.
- Use Product Support, Operations, business users, and other internal resources as temporary test executors during peak periods.
- Ensure testing knowledge and evidence remain within NASS rather than being held only by vendors.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of payment transaction processing, issuing, acquiring, authorization, reversal, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Strong testing and defect-management skills.
- Ability to understand transaction messages, system logs, business requirements, and technical requirements.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work with multiple vendors and external organizations simultaneously.
- Experience testing payment systems, card-management systems, switches, acquiring platforms, wallets, or banking integrations.
- Experience with payment certification projects.
- Experience working with card schemes, banks, regulators, or payment processors.
- Experience with UAT, system integration testing, and production-readiness processes.
- Experience in fintech, banking, card issuing, acquiring, or payment service providers.
Skills
- Payment transaction processing
- Defect management
- System testing
- Stakeholder management
Details
- Profession
- QA/QC Engineer
- Category
- Engineering