Yousif Hassan Alrayah
Summary
ISTQB Certified QA Professional with over 10 years in the IT sector, specializing in quality assurance and system operations. Extensive experience as a QA Team Lead and Senior QA Engineer, with expertise in Core Banking Systems including Temenos T24 and Oracle FLEXCUBE. Proven ability to maintain high-quality standards across web, mobile, and desktop applications, particularly in payment application solutions. Skilled in core banking testing for CIF, Account, Loan modules, and Islamic products such as Murabaha and Musharaka.Experienced in supporting SAMA Tanfeeth integration, performing end-to-end testing to ensure full compliance with Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) regulations and successful implementation of regulatory services within banking systems, including enforcement and Watheeq services.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Functional Test Lead
Gulf International Bank
Khobar, Saudi Arabia
2023.01 - 2026.03
- Leading, managing, and assigning tasks to testing team.
- Analysis and testing of changes related to T24 and integration systems with core banking, including cards, Murex, Treasury, SWIFT
- Evaluating business requirements and functional specifications while providing insights from testing perspective.
- Assessing QA test cases and scenarios before stakeholder approval
- Partnered with testing team members, business analysts, and developers to diagnose critical defects and liaise with cross-functional teams on defect resolution.
- Participating in daily Scrum meetings and weekly project meetings while providing QA status by highlighting risks, issues, concerns, and delays.
- Generating consolidated project status report for management meeting
- Proficient in Core Banking testing T24 across Operations, Account, Payment & Transfers, and Loan modules.
- Performed end-to-end testing for SAMA Tanfeeth services, covering full transaction lifecycle and regulatory compliance validation.
- Tested key Tanfeeth services including: Ban Dealing, Deny Dealing, Block, Garnishment, Transfer, Get Salary, Deduction, Account Verification, Lift Actions, Death Notification, and Transaction Inquiry.
- Performed API/Web Services testing (SOAP & REST) to ensure seamless integration with SAMA platforms.
- Executed comprehensive functional and integration testing across regulatory enforcement services.
Software Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Inma Bank, Riyadh)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021.01 - 2023.01
- Specialised in T24 Core Banking system testing emphasising customer account management, CIF, payment and transfer, loan modules, and Islamic financial products.
- Develop and implement test cases related to T24 and integration systems while identifying impacted areas and modules for coverage.
- Maintain tracking for test execution and defect leakage and analysis
- Develop test scenarios and test cases based on user stories, business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
- Recorded defects, assessed severity, and ranked each defect clearly.
- Assemble daily status report, UAT and regression closure reports, disseminating to all stakeholders including Business, Project Manager and Technical Team.
- Directed Chatbot Project concentrating on comprehending customer inquiries and providing pertinent responses.
- Spearheaded Ersal Upgrade as Test Lead, responsible for crafting test scenarios and test cases.
- Partnered closely with testing team to ensure delivery of high-quality new services to customer (Alinma Bank) for launch of new government services (SADAD-MOI, SAMA Projects).
- Accountable for preparing and executing test cases for all Flexub T24 core banking system modules, including Branch Operations, Islamic Loans, Treasury, Trade Finance, SWIFT.
- Exhibit robust expertise in SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and manual testing practices.
- Supported end-to-end testing for SAMA Tanfeeth integration, ensuring successful implementation of regulatory services and full compliance with Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) rules and guidelines.
Senior Test Engineer
Maveric-Systems (Gulf International Bank,Dammam City)
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2019.01 - 2021.01
- Responsible for analysis CR's to prepare test cases to cover all the functionality.
- Responsible for prepare and execute test cases for all Flexub T24 core banking system modules (Branch Operations, Islamic Loans, Treasury, Trade Finance, and SWIFT messages).
- Established and execute test procedure, analyzed test results and defect data, defect reporting through ticketing system, performing black box, functional, integration and regression testing.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.
- Led end-to-end testing for SAMA Tanfeeth integration, ensuring full compliance with Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) regulations.
- Watheeq Services – Tested Modules:Get Accounts, Get Balances, Get Liabilities, Get Customer Information.
- Tanfeeth Services – Tested Modules: Ban Dealing, Deny Dealing, Block, Garnishment, Deduction, Lift Actions, Death Notification, Transaction Inquiry, Account Verification
Software Testing Engineer
United Capital Bank
2017.01 - 2019.01
- Software testing engineer & Report Developer, Responsible for prepare and execute test cases for all iMAL core banking system modules (Accounting, Islamic Investment, Treasury, Trade Finance, Customer relationship manager and SWIFT).
- Analysis test results and defect data, Ensuring that all high-priority bugs are fixing prior to deployment.
- Also responsible for assisting end-users with the design, development and modifications of iMAL-type reports, screens and database access avenues.
- Provides supervision and training to Reporting Developer and assists in long-range planning, and implementing comprehensive STLC and test methodologies.
Operation and System Engineer
Central Bank of Sudan (Electronic Banking Services Co. Ltd - EBS)
2014.01 - 2017.01
- Supervise the process and procedures to handle new projects from Development /QA to operation.
- Monitoring project activities to ensure that all aspects are managed in a timely and effective manner.
- Develop, schedule, and run queries using SQL, PL/SQL scripts, and reporting tools to provide operation reports (daily, weekly, monthly and on demand reports).
- Prepare daily and on demand reports for the running and newly launched services for marketing and business departments using SQL.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting ATM network (about 600 ATM's).
- Monitoring and troubleshooting POS network (about 3,000 POS's).
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Mobile Payment System.
Education
Master of Computer Science - Software Engineering
Khartoum University
Bachelor of Software Engineering - with Honor Degree
AlNeelin University
Skills
- Scrum process
- ISTQB Certified
- Test Management
- Test planning
- Test Strategy
- Digital transformation
- Retail Banking
- Core Banking System
- ATM & Cards
- Cortex Debit & Cortex Reconciliation
- API Testing
- Non Functional Testing
Certification
- Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL),International Software Testing Qualifications Board, 20-CTFL-00867-USA.
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC),SCRUMstudy.
- Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC),CertiProf, 44688371, No.
- Web Element Locator Strategies, TestAutomationU,35b2b056,No.
- Exploring Service APIs through Test Automation,TestAutomationU,6bd70fc6,No.
- Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation,TestAutomationU,3857e5b8,No
Course's
- ITIL Foundation, Ilearn Training Center, Khartoum
- ITIL OSA, Kiwi Training Center, Khartoum
- iMAL Level 1 Support Technical Training, Path solutions Mkalles, Lebanon
- Mobile Payment Platform Project [Managing and Configuration], Gemalto
- Mobile Payment Platform Project [Operation], Gemalto
Timeline
Functional Test Lead
Gulf International Bank
2023.01 - 2026.03
Software Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Inma Bank, Riyadh)
2021.01 - 2023.01
Senior Test Engineer
Maveric-Systems (Gulf International Bank,Dammam City)
2019.01 - 2021.01
Software Testing Engineer
United Capital Bank
2017.01 - 2019.01
Operation and System Engineer
Central Bank of Sudan (Electronic Banking Services Co. Ltd - EBS)
2014.01 - 2017.01
Master of Computer Science - Software Engineering
Khartoum University
Bachelor of Software Engineering - with Honor Degree
AlNeelin University