Role & responsibilities

The opportunity

Senior Associate in the Certification Team (Non-Cards) at NPCI will be responsible for ensuring the compliance, app-testing, and certification of UPI, IMPS, AePS, IMPS, NeTC products as per NPCI standards. Expected to work closely with Payers, Payee, TPAP and third-party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve reported issues. Knowledge on API based tools.

Job Details:

Role Name: Senior Associate Onboarding
Year of experience: 2 to 6 years

Location: Chennai
Education: BE/BTech

Job details

- Collaboration with banks and payment partners, and internal stakeholders ensuring seamless product validation before market deployment.

- Execute end-to-end certification testing for NPCI Products and payment applications in-line with NPCI guidelines.

- Execute test cases, log defects, and ensure timely resolution.

- Maintain certification documentation and provide reports for audits.

- Execute test cases, log defects, and ensure timely resolution.

- Implement automation as required in the certification process

- Manage end to end certification activities across all products

- Co-ordination with internal departments for ensuring smooth business operations.





- Follow and bring in industry best practices for certifications.

Key skills

- Good legal technical skills in drafting, reviewing documentation and carrying out research

- Excellent communication, co-ordination and project management skills

- Solid knowledge of PCI standards, APIs, and payment terminologies.

- Hands-on experience with testing tools (e.g., Postman) and defect life cycle

- Ability to work in a structured, process-driven environment.

- Ability to handle multiple certifications simultaneously.

- Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence

- Knowledge (or) maintenance expertise of open stack servers

Good to Have:

- Good understating of Java, Python, .net and DBs

- Exposure to NPCI’s certification processes or payment scheme testing

- Ability to create SOP’s and Technical documentations

AI skills

- Ability to design the high-level architecture of an AI system including data ingestion, feature stores.

- Effectively handling the large datasets.

- Secure AI infrastructure – Federated Learning & Differential Privacy to protect PII(Personally Identifiable Information).

- Fraud & Anti-Money Laundering using AI.

📌 Senior Associate Onboarding (Chennai)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 Chennai