Project Lead (UAT testing)

Project Lead Level: 3

Hybrid (Austin, Texas - Requiring at least two days in the office each week, with the remaining days working from home )

6 Months Contract

Functional Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate has experience in leading large UAT testing efforts on system replacement projects; has been a hands-on quality assurance team member and has experience in public pension/benefit systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensure the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy is reviewed, understood and applied during UAT

• Development and maintenance of a comprehensive UAT test plan

• Accountable for overall communication with testers and stakeholders prior to and during UAT execution; ensure information is disseminated in a timely manner

• Complete the review of the test case coverage

• Collaborate with the Solution Vendor QA Lead(s) to incorporate newly identified test cases into the Solution Vendor regression suite

• Collaborate with the Solution Vendor QA Lead(s) to create a mutually agreed-upon test execution schedule

• Develop and oversee quality assurance procedures for the pension and benefits software implementation

• Develop and enforce quality assurance methodology standards and uniform testing and documentation practices to promote efficiency, consistency, and the reuse of test plans

• Initiate corrective measures to address quality issues and improve processes

• Manage a team of quality assurance analysts and testers

• Build, manage, lead, and train the QA team based on business and operational needs

• Implement metrics and reporting tools to measure quality performance and identify improvement opportunities

• Create, track and report metrics on QA progress against plans

• Provide regular UAT progress status reports to the stakeholders

• Enforce proper usage of ADO tool (e.g., test outcome updates)

• Stay current on laws and regulations to ensure compliance

• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations

• Set quality standards and ensure compliance by performing audits and tests

• Provide leadership and mentoring of staff, including training and support on quality assurance best practices

• Collaborate with development teams and Solution Vendor to identify and resolve bugs and defects

• Communicate quality issues and status to stakeholders, including senior management

• Conduct functional, calculation and regression testing of system upgrades

• Apply automation principles and practices and integrate automation throughout the testing cycles, test cases, and associated utilities

• Identify and deploy testing tools to maintain alignment with industry trends and testing best practices

• Develop automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Junit and Java

• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision

• Ability to think tactically & strategically in technical and business discussions

• Able to understand complex processes and risks, and articulate these in business terms

• Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and recommend improvements

• Ability to identify barriers to progress and propose solutions

Preferred requirements:

• 2 years of experience working with ADO

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification

• CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification

• Certified Software Quality Engineer or an ISTQB Foundation Level Certification