Senior Test Analyst | Payments SEPA

Senior Test Analyst – SEPA Instant Payments

London | 3 days in the office

6 month contract | £600–£650 per day Umbrella / Inside IR35

We are looking for an experienced Senior Test Analyst to join a global banking organisation, supporting a key SEPA Instant Payments transformation programme within EMEA Payment Operations.

This is a hands-on testing role focused on the end-to-end operational flows for SEPA Instant (SCT Inst), covering both customer payments and clearing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the planning and execution of business and operational testing for SEPA Instant
• Review business requirements, acceptance criteria, scheme rules and traceability matrices
• Create detailed test plans, scenarios and test scripts
• Execute end-to-end testing across customer payment and clearing flows
• Manage defects through identification, escalation, resolution and retesting
• Work closely with Payment Operations SMEs, Business Analysts, Technology teams and vendors
• Produce MI and reporting covering testing progress, defects, risks and issues
• Coordinate testing activity across multiple stakeholders and project resources
• Support operational readiness, training and pre-go-live activities
• Ensure outstanding defects are appropriately addressed through remediation or operational controls

Key Experience Required:

• Strong hands-on experience with SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) and/or SEPA Instant (SCT Inst)
• Previous experience as a Senior Test Analyst, Payments Test Analyst or Test Lead
• Strong understanding of payment operations and end-to-end payment processing
• Experience designing test plans, scenarios and scripts from business requirements
• Strong defect management and stakeholder management experience
• Experience working within banking or financial services

Desirable

• ISO 20022 payments experience
• GPP / Global PAYplus or OPF experience
• Test management tools such as Jira, ALM or Azure DevOps
• Power BI / testing MI experience