UAT/QE Lead

UAT/QE Lead
Candidate Reference: Robinson Anna
Location: Hybrid – Newark, NJ (Preferred)
Experience: 12+ Years

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced UAT/QE Lead with strong expertise in Commercial Real Estate, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination, and data testing. The ideal candidate will lead business-facing UAT activities, establish quality standards, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure the delivery of high-quality releases in a regulated business environment.
The candidate will serve as the quality bridge between business stakeholders, Product, and Technology teams while driving QA strategy, defect governance, and continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the business-facing UAT phase in pre-production and define the UAT strategy in collaboration with Technology and Product teams.

• Translate business and product requirements into comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.

• Lead stakeholder walkthroughs, UAT coordination, defect triage, and business sign-off activities.

• Ensure UAT readiness, including test data availability, environment stability, stakeholder onboarding, and test execution planning.

• Establish program-wide UAT and release quality gates.

• Provide independent Go/No-Go recommendations to program leadership based on quality metrics, test results, and identified risks.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the QA team, establish performance objectives, and improve testing capabilities.

• Leverage AI-powered tools, including Claude, to enhance QA productivity, test design, analysis, and automation where appropriate.

• Own QA resource planning, capacity management, and team allocation across projects.

• Maintain end-to-end traceability across business requirements, test cases, defects, and releases.

• Ensure QA compliance and documentation meet internal audit and regulatory requirements.

• Lead defect governance, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

• Develop predictive quality insights and implement continuous improvement initiatives to reduce recurring defects and improve release quality.

Top 3 Required Skills

1. Commercial Real Estate Domain Experience

2. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Leadership and Coordination

3. Data Testing and Validation

Required Experience

• 12+ years of overall professional experience.

• Strong experience leading UAT and quality engineering activities.

• Proven ability to coordinate business stakeholders, Product teams, Technology teams, and QA resources.

• Experience with data testing, data validation, defect management, and quality assurance.

• Strong understanding of release readiness, quality gates, and Go/No-Go decision processes.

• Experience maintaining test traceability and audit-ready QA documentation.

• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.