UATGo live manager
Dearborn, MI - USA
Job Summary
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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships we provide financing personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.
In this position...
The UAT and Go-Live Manager plays a pivotal role in our core modernization program by leading UAT and go-live readiness across technical and business user groups.
This individual will be responsible for defining planning and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Go-Live strategies for the Alfa Receivables implementation ensuring solutions meet business requirements and comply with financial regulations.
They partner with Enterprise End-to-End testing and in-sprint testing to support an integrated testing approach and facilitate collaboration across business product compliance testing and engineering teams. Additionally this role oversees go-live readiness activities including environment availability cross-initiative resource coordination policy and procedure readiness and training design while integrating UAT into the customer journey approach and culminating in a readiness certification process with stakeholder signoff.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Lead UAT strategy planning and execution including scope entry/exit criteria and execution oversight
- Serve as the primary liaison across Business Product Engineering Operations Compliance Training and Change Management
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure acceptance criteria are testable and UATready in Agile delivery models
- Manage UAT defects triage and risk mitigation in alignment with enterprise testing governance
- Ensure UAT environment and test data readiness including integrations and regulatory compliance
- Provide clear status reporting dashboards and risk visibility to senior leadership
- Define and drive golive readiness criteria governance cadence and go/nogo decisioning
- Lead cutover planning dress rehearsals runbooks and launch execution
- Oversee training readiness documentation control and launch communications
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Business Finance Information Technology Computer Science or a related field.
- 3 years of UAT or QA experience with a strong focus on UAT.
- 3 years of experience in auto finance or a closely related financial services environment.
- Experience in a highly regulated industry with a basic understanding of regulatory requirements and data security protocols.
- Proven experience in Agile/Scrum environments including user stories acceptance criteria and the Definition of Ready/Done.
- Experience supporting large-scale system modernization or transformation programs.
- Experience partnering with Training Org Change Management Compliance and operational SMEs on training design procedure readiness and job aids.
- Experience supporting go-live readiness cutover and operational launch activities including dress rehearsals support model preparation escalation paths command center readiness and hypercare.
- Experience facilitating cross-functional workshops and eliciting business requirements.
- Proficiency with test management tools such as Azure DevOps or JIRA/Xray for test case management execution tracking and defect management.
- Strong facilitation documentation and executive communication skills with the ability to present risks decisions and readiness status clearly to leadership.
Even better youll have...
- Experience with Alfa Receivables or comparable loan/receivables platforms.
- Experience developing or supporting launch dashboards RAID logs milestone trackers and readiness reporting.
- Exposure to change management activities and end-user adoption initiatives.
- Certifications such as ISTQB Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Agilist.
- Experience with test automation concepts and tools particularly as they relate to UAT.
- Basic understanding of API testing concepts and tools.
- Experience with data migration testing.
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a leadership level 5.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.
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