About the role
As a UAT Lead, Payments, you will make an impact by leading the end-to-end delivery and successful execution of User Acceptance Testing across complex payment initiatives. You will work collaboratively with product owners, business operations, subject matter experts, technology teams, architecture teams, external partners, and vendors to ensure solutions are ready for production.
In this role, you will:
- Own the complete UAT lifecycle, including planning, execution, defect management, reporting, business sign-off, and stakeholder communications.
- Define the UAT scope, test strategy, entry and exit criteria, test scenarios, execution plans, and business-readiness requirements.
- Lead cross-functional coordination across business, product, operations, technology, architecture, integration teams, and external partners.
- Manage testing across multiple upstream and downstream applications, interfaces, integrations, and dependent systems.
- Provide executive-level status reporting, proactively manage risks and issues, and validate end-to-end business processes before production deployment.
Work model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring three to four days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.
What you need to have to be considered
- 7+ years of professional experience in User Acceptance Testing, quality assurance, testing, or related roles within complex enterprise environments.
- Extensive experience leading User Acceptance Testing across large-scale enterprise programs involving multiple applications, integrations, vendors, and business teams.
- Strong knowledge of the Canadian payments ecosystem, including hands-on experience with Interac e-Transfer and wire payments.
- Experience with payment switching, financial message flows, and messaging standards or concepts such as ISO 20022 and SWIFT.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end payment processing, including settlement, reconciliation, exception handling, and upstream and downstream system dependencies.
- Proven experience with testing methodologies, defect lifecycle management, release management, risk management, executive reporting, and business sign-off.
These will help you stand out
- Experience translating complex business requirements into comprehensive UAT scenarios and execution plans.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders across business, product, operations, technology, architecture, and external partners.
- Experience identifying and escalating delivery risks within highly integrated banking or financial services environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present testing status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- A collaborative leadership style with the ability to drive accountability across teams without direct authority.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Compensation
We regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between $70,000 – $110,000 per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Sobre a Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) é uma construtora de IA e fornecedora de serviços de tecnologia, criando a ponte entre o investimento em IA e o valor para as empresas por meio do desenvolvimento de soluções de IA completas para nossos clientes. Nossa profunda experiência em setores, processos e engenharia nos permite incorporar o contexto único de cada organização em sistemas tecnológicos que potencializam a capacidade humana, geram resultados tangíveis e mantêm empresas globais à frente em um mundo em rápida transformação. Saiba mais em cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
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Informações adicionais de emprego
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A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
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