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Certification, Senior 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.

As a Certification, Senior Specialist, you will play a key role in testing and certifying Interac products and services, with a focus on Interac Flash, Payments, Konek, Interac Direct, ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and mobile NFC payments. You’ll define certification processes, develop test plans, and ensure alignment with industry standards and evolving Interac specifications.

You'll be responsible for:

• Defining and maintaining certification strategies, processes, and documentation.

• Developing and executing test plans aligned with business objectives and technical specifications.

• Reviewing and interpreting specification changes to ensure certification processes remain current.

• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to support certification and integration efforts.

• Contributing to QA strategy and processes, including planning for future certification frameworks.

• Creating certification artifacts such as test strategies, integration tests, regression tests, acceptance tests, and smoke tests.

• Implementing and enhancing test automation tools and scripts.

• Investigating interoperability issues, debug problems, and identify root causes in production environments.

• Supporting client onboarding and integration testing, ensuring successful implementation of releases.

• Coordinating with certification labs and manage client/vendor certification processes.

• Liaising with cross-functional teams to resolve interdependencies and project issues.

• Quality assurance testing and aligning certification artifacts with technical and business requirements.

• Reviewing technical specifications (Interac, EMVCo, ISO) and translating them into actionable test plans.

• Advising on test strategies within agile teams and across broader tech functions.

• Consulting with developers to design automated testing strategies, including unit testing.

• Writing and executing API test cases and scripts for functional, performance, and automation testing.

• Supporting external partners such as financial institutions and vendors.

• Ensuring organizational certifications and accreditations are maintained to support client implementations.

• Researching and applying industry best practices to improve certification processes.

You bring:

• A university degree in Computer Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

• Solid experience in testing and certification methodologies and best practices.

• Deep knowledge of EMV and payment systems.

• You’re proficient in ISO 8583 and ISO 20022 messaging standards, with strong Interac IMN experience.

• Working knowledge of cryptography and database processing (SQL).

• You can write Java and JavaScript code for testing purposes.

• Experience with scripting and tools for testing web services and modern web applications.

• 5+ years testing APIs using tools like SoapUI and ReadyAPI.

• You’ve led or supported end-to-end client implementations.

• You’re highly analytical, organized, and an effective communicator.

• You’ve worked with diverse stakeholders to gather requirements and build both manual and automated test plans.

• You’re experienced in executing UAT for EMV-based systems.

• 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

Please be aware of certain individuals fraudulently using Interac Corp.’s name and logo to offer fictitious employment opportunities. Interac Corp. will never ask, solicit, nor accept any monies in exchange for employment opportunities. Any such offers of employment are fraudulent and invalid, and you are strongly advised to exercise great caution and disregard such offers and invitations.

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.