Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

UAT Tester - FCC Systems

Financial Crime & AMLConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeAbu Dhabi - United Arab EmiratesNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
At least 3 years of experience in financial crime compliance, anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing, or compliance technology testing is required.
Hands-on experience with user acceptance testing for Transaction Monitoring or Customer Risk Rating systems is required.
A solid understanding of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing frameworks, know-your-customer/customer due diligence/enhanced due diligence processes, and sanctions screening, including OFAC and UN sanctions, is required.
Familiarity with suspicious activity report/suspicious transaction report filing processes and typology-based scenario design is required.

Responsibilities

Develop UAT test strategies, test plans, and entry/exit criteria for Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk Rating system implementations or upgrades.
Define UAT prerequisites, including test data readiness, environment configuration, and access provisioning.
Translate Transaction Monitoring typologies, including structuring, layering, rapid movement of funds, and high-risk jurisdiction activity, into testable scenarios.
Design boundary and edge-case testing to validate threshold logic, scoring bands, and rule sensitivity and specificity.
Execute test scripts covering alert generation, case creation, scenario tuning, and false-positive/false-negative analysis.
Validate Customer Risk Rating scoring logic across customer risk factors, including geography, product, channel, politically exposed person status, and occupation.
Test sanctions and watchlist screening configurations, including fuzzy-matching logic and Specially Designated Nationals/UN list updates.
Log defects, track remediation, and retest fixes through closure while maintaining a full audit trail.
Prepare UAT test cases, traceability matrices linking requirements to test cases, and defect logs.
Document test evidence sufficient to withstand internal audit and regulatory review.
Produce UAT summary reports and sign-off packs for stakeholder and governance approval.
Liaise with Compliance, IT, and vendor teams to clarify requirements and resolve testing issues.
Support business users during UAT sign-off sessions and training on new or updated Transaction Monitoring functionality.
Escalate systemic risks or control gaps identified during testing to Compliance and Technology leadership.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Transaction Monitoring/Customer Risk Rating platforms such as Actimize, SAS AML, Oracle Mantas, Norkom, or similar is preferred.
Exposure to test management tools such as JIRA, ALM, and TestRail, and structured defect-tracking processes, is preferred.
Prior consulting or advisory experience delivering client-facing UAT or compliance technology deliverables is preferred.

UAT Tester / QA Analyst - FCC Systems

Capitex · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Contract · Posted 2026-07-06

Workplace: on_site

Description

UAT Tester / QA Analyst — FCC Systems

Financial Crime Compliance | AML/CFT Technology

Job Summary

The UAT Tester / QA Analyst is responsible for planning, designing, and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Transaction Monitoring (TM) systems and related Customer Risk Rating (CRR) modules. This role ensures that TM scenarios, alert generation logic, scoring rules, and watchlist/sanctions screening configurations perform as intended before go-live, in full alignment with regulatory expectations (e.g., FATF Recommendations, OFAC, UN sanctions regimes, and local regulator guidance such as SAMA). The role bridges compliance requirements and technical system behavior, translating regulatory and business rules into structured, evidence-based test cases.

Key Responsibilities

UAT Planning & Design

• Develop UAT test strategies, test plans, and entry/exit criteria for TM and CRR system implementations or upgrades.

• Define UAT prerequisites, including test data readiness, environment configuration, and access provisioning.

• Translate TM typologies (e.g., structuring, layering, rapid movement of funds, high-risk jurisdiction activity) into testable scenarios.

• Design boundary and edge-case testing to validate threshold logic, scoring bands, and rule sensitivity/specificity.

Test Execution

• Execute test scripts covering alert generation, case creation, scenario tuning, and false-positive/false-negative analysis.

• Validate CRR scoring logic across customer risk factors (e.g., geography, product, channel, PEP status, occupation).

• Test sanctions and watchlist screening configurations, including fuzzy-matching logic and SDN/UN list updates.

• Log defects, track remediation, and re-test fixes through to closure, maintaining a full audit trail.

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare UAT test cases, traceability matrices (linking requirements to test cases), and defect logs.

• Document test evidence sufficient to withstand internal audit and regulatory review.

• Produce UAT summary reports and sign-off packs for stakeholder and governance approval.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Liaise with Compliance, IT, and vendor teams to clarify requirements and resolve testing issues.

• Support business users during UAT sign-off sessions and training on new/updated TM functionality.

• Escalate systemic risks or control gaps identified during testing to Compliance and Technology leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 3+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML/CFT, or compliance technology testing.

• Hands-on experience with UAT for Transaction Monitoring or Customer Risk Rating systems.

• Solid understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, KYC/CDD/EDD processes, and sanctions screening (OFAC, UN, EU).

• Familiarity with SAR/STR filing processes and typology-based scenario design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TM/CRR platforms (e.g., Actimize, SAS AML, Oracle Mantas, Norkom, or similar).

• Exposure to test management tools (e.g., JIRA, ALM, TestRail) and structured defect-tracking processes.

• Prior consulting or advisory experience delivering client-facing UAT or compliance technology deliverables.

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About the Company

Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

Capitex Global provides staffing and recruitment services focused exclusively on financial crime compliance (FCC). Its offerings include Rapid Response Teams that deploy interim specialists within days to handle surges and remediation, Executive Search for discreet global permanent hires, and an Early Careers Programme to train and place emerging FCC professionals. Clients are banks, fintechs, and regulated firms, and Capitex supports them by providing pre-vetted talent across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud, and ABAC, with deployments often in 24–48 hours. The goal is to help financial institutions scale their compliance functions quickly and effectively to meet regulatory requirements and manage financial crime risk.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2021

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