Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi

• Technical knowledge of system integration with regard to schemes(MasterCard/VISA etc).
• Responsible for integration and implementation of payment card issuing projects globally.
• Analyzing customer requests about specific features/functionality for technical feasibility and external suppliers.
• Communicating complex information, pertaining to the solution and roadmap, in a concise and timely fashion to both internal and external stakeholers.
• Working closely with business and sales teams in requirement gathering to determine key data input, output and functional processes.
• Facilitating the comparative analysis, identification and evaluation of the functional utility of third party products to be used with the current application and systems.
• Development of key technical documents e.g. architecture blueprints and appropriate Implementation specifications etc.

• Worked on projects including Regional Switch Acquiring/Issuing, NCR and Diebold ATMs and Cash/Cheque deposit machines, certification of different payment scheme over different transaction sets.
• Practical experience of working on E-banking solutions like Banking middleware (switch), ATM NDCs, EMV, VISA/SMS, MASTERCARD, CUP, IVR channels, GDCI, mobile banking etc.
• Individual on-site client support to clients in Pakistan, Africa and Middle Eastern Bank.
• Assisting and designing of project deployment plans.
• Assisting in requirement gathering for client projects with respect to their domain.

• Engaged in all End to End Testing of IRIS including System and Regression, Integration Testing after changes in product as desired by client.
• On-site client support to clients in Pakistan, Africa and Middle Eastern bank.
• Automation testing to improve the current running system of bank with future requirement of customers and improve the product by identifying the functional and professional gaps.
• Designing of all type of test scripts required on the project or CRF

GIMMAC is the Central African Inter-Country Switch. The switch provides BICEC the ability to link directly with all the CAC Banks, instead of a single link through the member country switches.

Responsibilities:

• To design test scripts.
• Complete in-house testing.
• Deployment on client-side.
• Cut-over to Live System and managing post cut-over monitoring issues.
• On site Managing and documentation the overall life-cycle of the Project.

Performing the Complete certification of VISA issuing in MMBL.

Responsibilities:

• To perform user acceptance testing with bank
• Cut-over and post cut-over monitoring.

With this project NIZWA bank in OMAN was able to produce their own MasterCard EMV cards.

Responsibilities:

• To perform user acceptance testing with bank
• Cut-over and post cut-over monitoring.

Allied Bank (ABL) was a VISA issuer and acquirer earlier but only Mag-Stripe cards could be issued and acquired on the bank, this project enabled ABL acquire EMV cards on their system as well as issue the same.

Responsibilities:

• To design test scripts.
• Complete in-house testing.
• Deployment on client-side.
• System Integration Testing.
• Support client in the UAT phase.
• Cut-over to Live System and managing post cut-over monitoring issues.
• Manage and document the overall life-cycle of the Project.

BAHL IRIS switch is a solution that accommodates all the corporate transaction processes that are being followed and the ones that are introduced in this era. BAHL Payment System is a very comprehensive and detailed solution that focuses on automating all the transaction processes related to cash management from receiving the instruments from the clients.

Responsibilities:

• Project Life-cycle Planning
• Onsite lead for overall project implementation
• Presenting and communicating the progress of project to all stack holders.
• Managing Client Requests during project implementation for enhancments

The ANZ prepaid card project is a migration of around 1.5 million Multicurrency prepaid cards from VPS to Core Card.

Responsibilities: VISA scheme certification for a new instance , Helping BA in requirement gathering and understanding the SOP of previous system, Cut-over to Live System and managing post cut-over monitoring

Al Ansari Exchange is one of the largest currency exchange in UAE.

Project is about enabling Al Ansari to issue multi currency prepaid card from Wirecard`s platform.