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 yearsLocation: Chennai

Education: BE/BTech

Requirements

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

- Positive legal technical skills in drafting, reviewing documentation and carrying out research
- Excellent communication, co-ordination and project management skills
- Robust 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 DB’s
- 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 (Chennai)
🏢 NPCI
📍 Chennai