Senior UAT Lead – Enterprise Financial Systems Upgrade

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Lead to support a large-scale financial systems upgrade. This individual will be responsible for developing, managing, and executing a comprehensive end-to-end UAT and regression testing strategy across multiple project workstreams.

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in financial services, enterprise system upgrades, and cross-functional test coordination, with the ability to work closely with business stakeholders, Operations, Technology, project management, and third-party vendors to ensure system functionality, data integrity, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

UAT Strategy & Regression Testing

• Develop and manage the overall UAT strategy, test plans, test cases, and execution schedules.
• Create, maintain, and own a comprehensive end-to-end regression testing suite covering critical business processes, system functionality, integrations, and downstream dependencies.
• Establish regression testing standards and ensure test coverage across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing throughout the upgrade lifecycle.
• Identify testing gaps, dependencies, and risks and recommend mitigation strategies.

Cross-Workstream Coordination

• Lead UAT activities across multiple business and technology workstreams, ensuring alignment of testing priorities, schedules, and deliverables.
• Collaborate with Operations, Technology, business analysts, project managers, and vendors to validate end-to-end business processes.
• Coordinate testing of upstream and downstream system integrations, data flows, reporting, and reconciliation processes.
• Facilitate cross-functional testing meetings, defect reviews, and issue resolution.
• Ensure changes introduced in one workstream do not negatively impact other business processes or systems.

Test Execution & Defect Management

• Develop and execute detailed test scenarios and scripts based on business requirements and system functionality.
• Manage defect identification, documentation, prioritization, tracking, and retesting through resolution.
• Coordinate with technical and functional teams to troubleshoot defects and validate fixes.
• Maintain test execution results, supporting evidence, and traceability to business requirements.
• Provide regular reporting on testing progress, defects, risks, and overall readiness.

Stakeholder Engagement & Release Readiness

• Partner with project leadership and business stakeholders to establish testing priorities and acceptance criteria.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and critical issues to project stakeholders.
• Support release readiness assessments and UAT sign-off activities.
• Develop and maintain testing documentation and support knowledge transfer to business and operational teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field required.
• 10+ years of experience in UAT, quality assurance, or enterprise application testing, including experience leading complex testing initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing end-to-end regression testing suites for enterprise financial systems.
• Experience coordinating UAT and regression testing across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong background in financial services, commercial banking, loan accounting, or enterprise financial platforms.
• Experience supporting major system upgrades, implementations, migrations, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of system integrations, data validation, reconciliation, and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Experience managing test cases, defects, and testing deliverables using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to independently lead testing efforts while remaining hands-on with test development and execution.