Job highlights

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years in Quality Engineering and 3+ years leadership experience

- Lead UAT strategy and execution, manage stakeholder partnerships, drive test automation and quality engineering, oversee team performance and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

- Establish quality gates and readiness checkpoints to ensure successful production releases

- Drive risk assessment and mitigation strategies for critical business initiatives

- Provide quality status reporting and executive-level communication

- Stakeholder Partnership

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and Program teams to ensure business requirements are testable and validated

- Facilitate requirement reviews and acceptance criteria assessments

- Serve as the primary point of contact for business acceptance and release readiness discussions

- Align testing strategies with business priorities and organizational goals

- Test Strategy & Execution

- Develop comprehensive UAT strategies covering:

- Functional testing

- End-to-end validation

- Regression testing

- Integration testing

- Business process validation

- Ensure full test coverage and traceability from requirements to test results

- Oversee defect triage and resolution activities

- Quality Engineering & Automation

- Drive adoption of test automation and AI-assisted testing practices

- Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency,



quality, and delivery speed

- Promote shift-left testing practices and quality engineering principles

- Evaluate and implement tools and capabilities that enhance testing effectiveness

- Team Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of UAT analysts and quality engineers

- Conduct performance management, coaching, and career development activities

- Manage resource planning, workload balancing, and capability development

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation

- Metrics & Continuous Improvement

- Establish and monitor KPIs including:

- Defect leakage

- UAT execution progress

- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and adaptable work arrangements.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

- 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, QA, or UAT

- 3+ years of people leadership experience

- Experience managing testing activities for large-scale enterprise applications

- Experience with defect management and test management tools

- Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, and release management processes

- Proven solid stakeholder management and communication skills

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