Roles and Responsibilities:

Test Lead — UAT POD

Role Title: UAT Test Lead Experience Required: 8+ years Team Size Managed: 3
Testers Reporting To: QA Manager / Project Manager (as applicable)

Role Summary

The UAT Test Lead owns the end-to-end validation of features delivered to the
UAT setting. This role is responsible for understanding product features
and business requirements, planning, coordinating, and overseeing the UAT POD's
testing activities, ensuring feature quality, timely sign-off, and clear
communication with business stakeholders, development teams, and project
management.

Key Responsibilities:

* Understand end to end product features and business requirements
* Own the overall UAT strategy, test planning, and execution schedule for
features moving into the UAT environment.
* Analyze business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to
define UAT scope and test coverage.
* Allocate and prioritize testing tasks across the 3 testers based on feature
complexity and release timelines.
* Review and approve test cases, test scenarios, and traceability matrices
prepared by testers.
* Coordinate with Development, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Release
Management teams to align on UAT entry/exit criteria.
* Track defects identified during UAT, drive triage discussions, and ensure
timely resolution with development teams.
* Conduct daily/weekly status reviews with the POD and provide progress
reports to stakeholders and leadership.
* Own the UAT sign-off process — ensuring features meet defined acceptance
criteria before promotion to production.
* Identify risks, bottlenecks, and environment/data issues in the UAT cycle
and drive mitigation plans.




* Mentor and guide testers on test design, defect management, and UAT best
practices.
* Continuously improve UAT processes, templates, and reporting mechanisms for
the POD.
* Maintain UAT metrics/dashboards (test coverage, defect trends, pass/fail
rates, sign-off status).

Required Skills & Qualifications:

* 8+ years of overall QA/testing experience, with proven experience leading
UAT or functional testing teams.
* Strong understanding of UAT processes, test planning, defect lifecycle, and
sign-off governance.
* Experience managing a small team of testers, including task allocation and
performance tracking.
* Execute functional and end-to-end test cases in the UAT environment for
assigned features.
* Log, document, and track defects clearly with steps to reproduce, evidence
(screenshots/logs), and severity/priority.
* Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g.,
JIRA, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, Zephyr).
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — able to liaise
with business, product, and engineering teams.
* Solid understanding of SDLC/Agile methodologies and release management
processes.
* Ability to read and interpret business requirements, functional specs, and
acceptance criteria.
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills for status reporting and
sign-off documentation.

Good to Have:

* Domain knowledge relevant to the business/product area being tested
especially in retail sales domain.
* Exposure to basic SQL for data validation.
* Experience with test automation frameworks (for coordination with
automation teams, not hands-on required).
* ISTQB or equivalent testing certification.

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