QA Functional Tester (Investment banking & Commodity Trading platform)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and govern all QAT \& UAT activities for the Commodity Trading platform across all business streams.
• Leverage prior experience in Trading (commodities, Stocks, FX and Crypto) to test portfolio valuations, risk management triggers, and complex trading scenarios.
• Apply deep trading platform expertise encompassing customer onboarding, back office workflows, call centre flows, Sharia validation flows, and integrations.
• Own the QAT/UAT strategy, test approach, resource planning, timelines, and release quality gates.
• Execute functional testing for real-time trading on mobile (iOS/Android/Web), focusing on live price feeds, spread calculations, and order execution.
• Utilize baseline knowledge of UAE and international exchange platforms and digital commodity policies during scenario planning.
• Conduct rigorous testing of diverse settlement models (Immediate, T+1, T+2) to verify Shariah-compliant spot trade mechanics.
• Coordinate comprehensive UAT preparation, including test scenarios, test cases, test data provisioning, entry/exit criteria, and formal sign-off requirements.
• Drive daily defect triage sessions alongside Managers, Vendors, and Business Product Owners.
• Ensure timely closure of defects with complete transparency on root cause analysis, business impact, and resolution paths.
• Act as the primary escalation point for all QAT \& UAT platform issues, delivery risks, and schedule delays.
• Ensure strict alignment with Sharia governance, operational risk requirements, and digital customer experience standards.
• Manage communication with senior management regarding UAT progress, risks, mitigation measures, and deployment readiness for go-live.
• Maintain all UAT documentation, progress reports, requirement traceability matrices, and defect logs in compliance with internal audit requirements.

Generic Accountabilities

• Act as the primary point of contact (POC) across Business, Operations, Sharia, Technology, and Digital Channels for all Trading Platforms.
• Perform continuous test analysis to identify critical testing enhancements required for trading workflows, system integrations, and digital user journeys.
• Develop and govern QAT/UAT artifacts, including test scenarios, test cases, templates, and traceability matrices, while enforcing strict version control.
• Provide clear, data-driven UAT progress reports to the PMO and senior stakeholders under tight timelines to ensure absolute alignment with planned release dates.
• Represent core business interests during CRM performance testing, non-functional evaluation, regression cycles, and release validations.
• Collaborate across delivery squads to embed customer-centricity and ensure platform functionality natively enables relationship-based Islamic banking.
• Manage, implement, and enforce standardized testing methodologies, documentation protocols, and quality assurance KPIs across all streams.
• Support critical post-deployment validation, hyper-care UAT monitoring, and production environment sanity testing.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities within operational workflows, automated testing frameworks, and overall triage methodologies.
• Ensure all UAT and QAT activities comply fully with central banking regulations, Sharia audit guidelines, and internal governance control frameworks.

Minimum Experience

• 5–10 years of experience as QA Functional tester in Digital Banking \& Wealth management (Investment Banking Services).
• Must: Minimum 3 years leading UAT for Trading platforms, Customer Experience Platforms, Admin Portals, Back-office applications.
• Secondary Experience: T24 Knowledge, Outward and Inward remittances.
• Basic understanding of Islamic banking products (Murabaha, Wakala, Ijarah, Musharaka, CASA \& Margin).
• Experience in testing Trading integrations with core banking, AML, KYC, Workflow/ESB, and digital channels.
• Proven experience using JIRA, ALM QC, or similar tools for test case management and defect tracking.
• Solid background working in digital transformations, CI-CD implementations.

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Preferred certifications: Advanced ISTQB Certified, Agile Certification.