UAT Lead

In this UAT Lead role, you will own end-to-end User Acceptance Testing for technology transformation and system implementation programmes. You will drive planning, governance and execution to ensure business requirements are met and deployment-ready solutions. You will coordinate test artefacts, manage schedules and tester readiness, and produce evidence and closure reports. This role sits at the heart of go-live readiness, enabling successful transitions with minimal business disruption.

• Lead UAT planning, governance and execution from preparation through to closure
• Coordinate the development of test scenarios, scripts and business test data
• Manage UAT schedules, resources and tester readiness
• Monitor test progress, coverage, defects, risks and dependencies
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement, testing meetings and status reporting
• Coordinate defect triage and resolution with functional and technical teams
• Ensure test evidence is captured and maintained within agreed testing tools
• Drive business acceptance, sign-off and go-live readiness, producing closure reports and deployment recommendations

• Experience leading UAT for large transformation or system implementation programmes
• Strong IT testing knowledge, including business process testing and defect management
• Experience using test management tools such as Azure DevOps, ALM or JIRA
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills
• Strong planning, governance, reporting and organisational capabilities
• Understanding of release readiness, business acceptance and deployment processes

• stakeholder management
• facilitation
• communication
• Azure DevOps
• ALM
• JIRA