Business Analyst Quality Assurance - Payments
Posted Today by Outsized
Negotiable
Undetermined
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England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Business Analyst Quality Assurance - Payments involves supporting a large-scale payments migration and technology delivery programme for a leading organization in the UK payments and financial services sector. The consultant will be responsible for analytical tasks, testing, documentation, and stakeholder coordination across various teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in payments, banking, or fintech environments, with a focus on system integrations and quality assurance. This position requires strong independent working capabilities and a thorough understanding of payment processes and technology delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support large-scale payments, cards, platform migration, or technology delivery programmes.
- Gather, analyse, and document business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and delivery inputs.
- Map current-state and future-state processes, system integrations, data flows, and operational workflows.
- Work closely with business, technology, product, operations, compliance, risk, and vendor teams to clarify requirements and support delivery.
- Support solution design discussions across payment flows, transaction processing, APIs, system integrations, and operational processes.
- Develop and support test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test execution across the migration lifecycle.
- Support system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, data validation, and production readiness testing.
- Identify, document, track, and retest defects through to resolution.
- Support defect triage, issue resolution, risk tracking, and dependency management.
- Validate payment flows, transaction processing, data migration outputs, system integrations, and business requirements.
- Contribute to cutover rehearsals, go-live readiness assessments, production validation, and post-implementation support.
- Prepare clear documentation, status updates, risk logs, test reports, defect dashboards, and stakeholder communication materials.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Test Analyst, or similar role within banking, payments, cards, fintech, or financial services.
- Experience supporting large-scale technology transformation, platform migration, system integration, or payments delivery programmes.
- Good understanding of payment processing, transaction flows, card issuing/acquiring, APIs, data flows, system integrations, or operational processes.
- Experience gathering requirements, preparing documentation, supporting testing, and coordinating across business and technology teams.
- Hands-on experience with test planning, test case preparation, test execution, defect management, regression testing, or UAT support.
- Ability to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, defects, and process impacts in a structured way.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business users, technology teams, vendors, and delivery leadership.
- Strong analytical, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in complex, regulated, fast-paced, and high-risk delivery environments.
- Ability to operate independently as an interim consultant, contractor, or specialist delivery resource.
- UK payments or UK financial services market experience.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Who are we? Outsized is a high-growth, well-funded disruptor in the fast-evolving talent economy. We focus on full-time contracts (remote or onsite), typically between 1–12 months. We help our talent upskill so they have better chances of landing their dream projects and charging fair rates. Outsized members also have access to an exclusive Community where they can connect with peers and experts, take part in live events, and find project collaborators.
Who are we looking for? Our client, a leading organisation in the UK payments and financial services sector, is seeking experienced Business Analyst Quality Assurance - Payments Consultant to support a large-scale payments migration and technology delivery programme. The project will require strong analytical, testing, documentation, and stakeholder coordination capabilities across business, technology, operations, compliance, and vendor teams. The client is looking for independent consultant who can operate across either technical business analysis or quality assurance workstreams, supporting the successful delivery of complex payment platform migration initiatives. The ideal consultant will have experience in payments, cards, banking, fintech, or regulated financial services environments, with strong exposure to system integrations, data flows, requirements gathering, testing, defect management, and go-live readiness.
Key Activities
- Support large-scale payments, cards, platform migration, or technology delivery programmes.
- Gather, analyse, and document business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and delivery inputs.
- Map current-state and future-state processes, system integrations, data flows, and operational workflows.
- Work closely with business, technology, product, operations, compliance, risk, and vendor teams to clarify requirements and support delivery.
- Support solution design discussions across payment flows, transaction processing, APIs, system integrations, and operational processes.
- Develop and support test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test execution across the migration lifecycle.
- Support system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, data validation, and production readiness testing.
- Identify, document, track, and retest defects through to resolution.
- Support defect triage, issue resolution, risk tracking, and dependency management.
- Validate payment flows, transaction processing, data migration outputs, system integrations, and business requirements.
- Contribute to cutover rehearsals, go-live readiness assessments, production validation, and post-implementation support.
- Prepare clear documentation, status updates, risk logs, test reports, defect dashboards, and stakeholder communication materials.
Your Background
- Strong experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Test Analyst, or similar role within banking, payments, cards, fintech, or financial services.
- Experience supporting large-scale technology transformation, platform migration, system integration, or payments delivery programmes.
- Good understanding of payment processing, transaction flows, card issuing/acquiring, APIs, data flows, system integrations, or operational processes.
- Experience gathering requirements, preparing documentation, supporting testing, and coordinating across business and technology teams.
- Hands-on experience with test planning, test case preparation, test execution, defect management, regression testing, or UAT support.
- Ability to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, defects, and process impacts in a structured way.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business users, technology teams, vendors, and delivery leadership.
- Strong analytical, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in complex, regulated, fast-paced, and high-risk delivery environments.
- Ability to operate independently as an interim consultant, contractor, or specialist delivery resource.
- UK payments or UK financial services market experience.