Payment Technical Specialist

Payment Technical Specialist

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

You’ll be responsible for performing the technical support functions for Interac Corp. Debit products and services, including Mobile payment projects. You will be reviewing functional, security and design specifications to ensure full understanding of what we build. You will be analyzing external specifications and provide technical translations to the internal team to consume.

You’ll be tasked with developing, enhancing and maintaining Interac technical specifications, review architecture and design, recommending an appropriate framework, creating automation scripts, review deployment plans, support internal teams and partners for deployment activities, work with internal teams for defects triage and resolution.

This Payment Technical Specialist role is responsible for working with Product to plan development and delivery roadmaps for Interac Debit.

This role will be knowledgeable in EMV payments and API software testing.  

You'll be responsible for:

• Providing technical solutions based on business requirements

• Writing and maintaining payments technical specifications

• Advising on test strategies within agile teams and with the wider tech team

• Working in collaboration with product, architects, security, platform teams

• Providing support and liaise with external partners or vendors

• Providing ongoing technical support and maintenance for systems and infrastructure

• Application support

• Release management and release planning with business and vendors

• Building deployments in test environments, configuration and validation. You will co-ordinate with other teams for this validation – DevOps, platform, networking and DBAs. 

• Being the main point of technical contact with application vendors

• Investigating interoperability issues, debugging and finding root cause for production issues

• Supporting QA for technical issues

• Supporting client’s integration test phase

• Providing solutions for process improvements based on industry research of industry standards and best practices, analyzing and applying them to our system  

You bring:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

• Expertise to write Java and Javascript code for the purpose of testing

• Scripting/programming experience and experience with various tools to test Web Services & Web based modern applications

• 5+ years of experience in API software testing using automated tools including, Soap UI, Ready API, Selenium, Jmeter

• Experience working with multiple internal stakeholders to understand requirements 

• Strong knowledge of the development process for both large-scale distributed and centralized software applications

• Database processing and ability to write complex SQL queries will be an asset 

• Cryptography knowledge will be an asset 

• Strong EMV and payment knowledge and experience.

• Strong expertise in Interac IMN / ISO messaging and in ISO8583 and ISO20022

• Experience in client end-to-end implementation

• Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills to manage deliverables

• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.  We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check;
• Public safety verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• 5-year employment verification;
• Education verification; and
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work.  Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:
Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.
Core Values:  They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.
Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.
Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you

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Please note that under no circumstances shall Interac Corp. be held liable or responsible for any claims, losses, damages, expenses, or other inconveniences resulting from or in any way connected to the actions of individuals performing such fraud. Further, such fraudulent communication shall not be treated as any kind of offer or representation by Interac Corp. or its subsidiaries and affiliates.