UAT Lead

Role: UAT Lead

Duration: 12 months (Long Term)

Location: Atlanta GA 30334 Hybrid

Local candidates only as they will be required to work onsite 3 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

UAT Strategy & Planning

Develop and implement comprehensive UAT strategies aligned with business requirements and regulatory compliance.

Define and enforce UAT entry and exit criteria ensuring alignment with quality standards.

Create and manage test plans scenarios and test cases in collaboration with business analysts developers and end users.

Execution & Oversight

Lead and coordinate UAT execution across multiple workstreams ensuring timely completion.

Oversee test execution performed by vendors and internal teams ensuring traceability and defect resolution.

Implement test automation strategies to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Participate in defect triage discussions and drive resolution in coordination with developers system architects and business owners.

Perform riskbased testing and impact analysis to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

Lead data validation and integration testing across multiple systems ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Knowledge on performance and load testing coordination with technology/EDE partners. help define hightraffic test scenarios and review results.

Coordinating defect resolution across internal and external teams to ensure compliancedriven fixes

Should ensure accurate eligibility determination and systemtosystem reconciliation.

Stakeholder Management & Reporting

Work closely with business IT policy and vendor teams to facilitate testing activities and address blockers.

Communicate UAT progress risks and issues to senior leadership through dashboards and reports.

Conduct weekly status meetings risk assessments and postmortem analysis for continuous improvement.

Collaborate with the Release Management team to ensure a seamless golive process.

Process Improvement & Compliance

Enhance testing processes by implementing best practices from leading consulting firms (e.g. Agile frameworks DevOps integration test automation).

Ensure adherence to HIPAA PHI and PII regulations in all testing activities.

Optimize test strategies based on lessons learned from previous release

Maintain UAT documentation including test scripts defect logs and status repor

Minimum Requirements

Education & Years of Experience

Bachelors degree and at least 6 years of relevant professional experience.

Masters degree in a relevant field may be substituted for 2 years of experience.

Experience Knowledge & Skills

o 5 years of experience in UAT quality assurance and software testing.

o Experience managing programs involving multiple stakeholders and/or vendors.

o Ability to thrive in complex and evolving environments.

o Exceptional interpersonal problemsolving and analytical skills.

o Strong project management experience preferably in a consulting or government environment.

o Experience working with multivendor environments and in managing outsourced testing teams

o Knowledge of Agile and Scrum for testing.

o Handson experience with test management tools (JIRA ALM etc.).

o Expertise in cloudbased SaaS solutions and API testing.

o Familiarity with data analytics SQL and business intelligence tools for validation.

o Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release management.

Skills:

o Strong problemsolving analytical and stakeholder management skills.

o Experience with test management tools defect tracking systems and UAT governance.

o Ability to work in a fastpaced multivendor environment

Preferred Qualifications

Certifications in PMP ISTQB or CSM is good to have

Experience with CMS integrations and requirements.

Experience with test automation tools (Selenium Tosca or Cypress).

Experience with state health insurance Exchanges the federal Exchange or EDE partners.

Understanding of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the individual market including federal and state health insurance policies and programs.

Experience working with and/or processing 834 enrollment files.

Experience working in and/or with governmental agencies.

Key Enhancements & Skillsets:

Analytical Thinking & ProblemSolving Emphasized risk assessment impact analysis and test optimization. Project Management & Agile Integrated Agile Scrum and SAFe methodologies for better test execution. Technical Proficiency Added cloudbased testing automation tools API validation and SQL querying. Stakeholder Collaboration Strengthened businesstechnology alignment and vendor coordination. Process Improvement Incorporated test automation DevOps integration and best practices for continuous improvement.