QA Tester — LM/LC Upgrade & Retail

DESCRIPTION:

Position Summary 

The QA Tester will be responsible for functional, integration, regression, upgrade, and end-to-end testing of LM/LC Upgrade and Retail functionality. The role will focus on validating upgraded functionality, identifying regression impacts, supporting business users, and providing post-live support. 

The position requires strong knowledge of the complete lending product lifecycle and awareness of applicable banking regulations and compliance requirements. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Review upgrade requirements, functional specifications, change requests, and business processes. 
• Analyze existing and upgraded functionality to identify impacted areas. 
• Develop and execute test scenarios and test cases for LM/LC Upgrade and Retail functionality. 
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, upgrade, and end-to-end testing. 
• Validate upgraded functionality against approved requirements and expected business behavior. 
• Verify that existing functionality continues to operate correctly following the upgrade. 
• Perform comparative testing between current and upgraded functionality where required. 
• Validate business rules, workflows, calculations, validations, limits, approvals, and transaction processing. 
• Verify interfaces and data exchange between LM/LC, Retail, and integrated systems. 
• Perform defect retesting and targeted regression testing. 
• Support data validation and reconciliation activities associated with upgrade testing. 
• Provide business support to business users and stakeholders for LM/LC and Retail-related functional queries and issues. 
• Provide post-live/production support following system upgrades and releases, including production issue analysis, functional validation, impact assessment, and coordination with technical teams. 
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the complete lifecycle of lending products, including origination, assessment, approval, disbursement, servicing, repayment, restructuring, settlement, and closure. 
• Understand the relationship between lending products, customer information, accounts, collateral/security, limits, pricing, interest, fees, repayment schedules, and related banking processes. 
• Maintain awareness of applicable banking regulations, compliance requirements, internal policies, and regulatory controls affecting lending and Retail banking processes. 
• Ensure regulatory and compliance-related requirements are considered in test scenarios and validation activities. 
• Analyze production issues and determine potential functional, configuration, data, integration, or business-rule impacts. 
• Support root-cause analysis and identify potential regression and upgrade impacts. 
• Identify upgrade-specific risks, functional gaps, business impacts, and regression areas. 
• Log, track, and manage defects through the agreed defect lifecycle. 
• Participate in defect triage and provide functional/business analysis to support resolution. 
• Maintain test cases, execution results, evidence, defect records, and traceability. 
• Support business and UAT teams during upgrade, Retail, and post-live validation activities. 
• Provide daily testing progress, defect status, business-support updates, and post-live issue status. 
• Support release readiness and post-production validation activities. 

Soft Skills 

• Analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Stakeholder communication 
• Business-process analysis 

Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Banking/Finance, or a related field. 
• 5–7 years of relevant software testing experience, preferably within banking or financial services. 
• Strong experience in functional, integration, regression, and upgrade testing. 
• Strong understanding of lending products and the complete lending lifecycle. 
• Experience with LM/LC, Retail Banking, Lending, or related banking applications. 
• Experience with application upgrades, version upgrades, migration, or modernization testing. 
• Experience providing business/application support and post-live production support. 
• Awareness of banking regulations, compliance requirements, and regulatory controls. 
• Experience validating integrations and business-critical banking transactions. 
• Strong understanding of defect management and testing lifecycle. 

 Technical Skills 

• LM/LC testing 
• Lending lifecycle knowledge 
• Retail banking testing 
• Upgrade and regression testing 
• Functional and integration testing 
• Business support 
• Post-live / production support 
• Banking regulations and compliance awareness 
• Test case design and execution 
• Defect analysis and management 
• Data validation and reconciliation 

Certifications 

• ISTQB certification is preferred. 

 

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