Software Quality Tester (SQA)

Minimum Qualifications;

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Information Technology Software Engineering or related fields.
• Preferred certification or coursework in Islamic Finance/Banking
  
  

Minimum Experience

• 4–7 years of software testing / QA experience, preferably in banking, financial services, securities, brokerage, or capital markets.
• Hands-on experience in API testing and system-to-system interface testing.
• Experience in tax, VAT, invoicing, finance, ERP, or regulatory implementation projects is highly desirable.
• Previous involvement in an e-Invoicing implementation would be a significant advantage.
• Proficiency in test automation tools and test management systems.
• Familiar with SQL, API Testing and basic scripting
• having testing certification e.g ISTQB foundation Level or CSTE Certified Software Tester
  
  

Testing Skills Experience

• understanding SDLC and STLC
• experience in Test Planning and Strategy
• experience in test case design
• Defect Management
• Testing types Knowledge
• Automation testing
  
  

Description

Prepare test strategy, test scenarios, test cases, test data, and traceability matrix.

Perform functional testing, system integration testing (SIT), regression testing, and end-to-end testing.

Validate complete invoice lifecycle including invoice generation, validation, submission, acknowledgement, rejection, correction, and status updates.

Perform API testing between source applications, middleware, tax/e-invoicing platforms, ASP/service providers, and downstream systems.

Validate API requests/responses, authentication, headers, status codes, payload structure, field mappings, error handling, and retry scenarios.

Validate XML/JSON payloads against required schemas and business rules.

Test mandatory and conditional invoice fields, data formats, calculations, tax values, rounding rules, exemptions, zero-rated transactions, and other applicable tax scenarios.

Validate data mapping between trading applications, customer master, finance/ERP, tax engine, middleware, and e-invoicing platform.

Perform positive, negative, boundary, exception, and data-validation testing.

Support UAT preparation, test execution, defect triage, and production-readiness assessment.

Strong proficiency in functional and end-to-end testing.

Strong knowledge of API testing, preferably using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, OpenAPI, or equivalent.

Good understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, JSON, XML, HTTP methods, authentication mechanisms, and error codes.

Ability to validate XML against XSD/schema specifications and perform field-level data validation.

Good SQL knowledge for backend/database validation and reconciliation.

Experience with defect-management and test-management tools such as ALM/Quality Center, or equivalent.

Strong understanding of integration testing involving multiple upstream and downstream systems.

Ability to interpret BRDs, interface documents, field-mapping sheets, business rules, and regulatory specifications.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Knowledge

Good understanding of VAT concepts and tax invoice requirements.

Prior experience in a securities, brokerage, investment, or trading firm is preferred.

Ability to understand different transaction and fee scenarios applicable to institutional, corporate, or other applicable clients.