Test and Validation Engineer - Payment and Electronic Payments - Financial Services - Ile-De-France

Role Summary

Context & Issues

Within our Financial Services teams, you work on the critical platforms of our key account clients (Retail Banking, Issuers/Acquirers, Schemes, PSP).

Your role: secure Payments & Electronic banking chains in a high availability environment (CB, SEPA SCT/SCT Inst, ISO 20022, NEXO, Clearing, etc.).

We are looking for a confirmed to senior profile, immediately operational on the functional and technical issues of the sector.

Knowledge of payment chains

• Acquisition/Issuance
• Switch/Authorization
• SEPA SCT / SDD / Instant Payment
• CB, NEXO, 3DS, Clearing

Good level in SQL for analysis and troubleshooting.

Mastery of Linux/Unix environments for viewing logs.

In addition, you are recognized for your rigor and your sense of quality and you enjoy working in a team.

🚀 Why Sopra Steria?

Interventions on the most critical Payments infrastructures on the market.

ISO 20022 / Instant Payment / Tokenization environment in full acceleration.

Skills-building course on French and international electronic banking standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the test strategy on Acquisition/Issuance, Switch, Authorization, Compensation scopes.
• Write test plans, scenarios, test cases (functional, end-to-end, integration).
• Execute manual test campaigns + contribute to automation depending on the projects.
• Analyze logs, trace anomalies, prioritize and track corrections (Jira, Xray, ALM).
• Collaborate with MOA / MOE / Payments business teams in Agile cycles
• Contribute to approvals in critical areas: CB2A, SEPA, ISO 20022, 3D Secure, Tokenization, Clearing.
• Support production launches and ensure the reliability of the lines.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of experience in the field of testing, including at least 3 years in its technologies and business expertise:
• Testing tools: HP ALM / Quality Center, Xray, JIRA, Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI/Postman
• Knowledge of protocols/formats: ISO 8583, ISO 20022, XML, JSON, APDU

Benefits

• A teleworking agreement to telework up to 2 days per week depending on your missions.
• An interesting benefits package: mutual insurance, a CSE, restaurant vouchers, a profit-sharing agreement, vacation bonuses and co-optation.
• Multiple career opportunities: more than 30 job families, so many pathways to imagine together.
• Several hundred training courses accessible independently with Sopra Steria Academy.
• The possibility of getting involved with an association thanks to our citizen engagement platform.
• The opportunity to join the Tech'Me UP collective (training, conferences, monitoring, and much more...).
• An inclusive and committed employer, our company works every day to fight against all forms of discrimination and promote a respectful working environment. This is why, committed to diversity and diversity, we encourage all applications and all profiles.
• https: //www.soprasteria.fr/nous-connaitre/nos-engagements
• An inclusive and committed employer, our company works every day to fight against all forms of discrimination and promote a respectful working environment. This is why, committed to diversity and diversity, we encourage all applications and all profiles.
• https: //www.soprasteria.fr/nous-connaitre/nos-engagements

About the Company

Sopra Steria, a major player in Tech in Europe, with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognized for its consulting, services and digital solutions activities. It helps its clients carry out their digital transformation and obtain concrete and lasting benefits. The Group provides a global response to the competitiveness challenges of large companies and organizations, by combining in-depth knowledge of sectors of activity and technologies with a collaborative approach.

Sopra Steria places people at the heart of its action and is committed to its clients to make the most of digital technology to build a positive future. In 2025, the Group achieved a turnover of 5.6 billion euros.