UAT Lead Senior Manager

Accenture; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance

Flexible compensation program

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced UAT Lead to join a large-scale banking modernization program in a bilingual environment. You will own end-to-end UAT planning, execution, and governance across multiple workstreams, ensuring clear criteria and sign-off for go-live decisions.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, banking operations knowledge (KYC, onboarding), and hands-on leadership of a small team, with travel 25-30% to program locations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading UAT on banking or financial services transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of retail banking or operations (e.g. KYC, onboarding, account management).
• Experience coordinating structured test cycles with formal entry/exit criteria and sign-off governance.
• Proficiency in test management tools such as JIRA or X-Ray.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end UAT planning, scheduling, and execution across program workstreams.
• Facilitate UAT sessions with business users and translate requirements into test scenarios.
• Act as the single point of contact for business stakeholders during UAT phases.
• Coordinate with Test Manager to align UAT with test strategy, entry and exit criteria.
• Confirm scope, business readiness, and sign-off conditions with leads.
• Manage defect triage, prioritization, and resolution with delivery teams.
• Produce UAT status reporting and governance sign-off documents.
• Identify and escalate risks and blockers to UAT progress.

Skills

UAT Leadership

Banking domain knowledge

Stakeholder management

Test planning

Education

ISTQB certification

Tools

JIRA

X-Ray

Job description

Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, is a leading global professional services company that helps major businesses, public administrations, and other organizations around the world develop their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and improve services for citizens, creating tangible value at speed and scale.

About the Program

Intelligent Operations is a multi-year banking modernization program delivering a complex systems integration solution. AI is embedded in the program Way of Working - currently accelerating functional specification, design, and test case generation across ServiceNow, RPA, and API workstreams, etc…

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced UAT Lead to join a large-scale banking transformation program. In this role, you will own the end-to-end coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing across multiple workstreams, acting as the primary bridge between business users and the delivery team. You will ensure that UAT activities are structured, evidenced, and completed to a high standard - enabling confident, on-time go-live decisions.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong stakeholder management, a solid understanding of banking operations, and the ability to work effectively in a bilingual environment (French and English).

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end UAT planning, scheduling, and execution across program workstream.

• Facilitate UAT sessions with business users - translating functional requirements into structured, traceable test scenarios

• Act as the single point of contact for business stakeholders throughout UAT phases

• Coordinate with the Test Manager to align UAT with the overall test strategy, entry criteria, and exit criteria

• Work with initiative and functional leads to confirm scope, business readiness, and sign-off conditions

• Manage defect triage during UAT - prioritizing, tracking, and driving resolution in close collaboration with delivery teams

• Produce UAT status reporting, defect dashboards, and formal sign-off documentation for governance

• Identify and elevate risks and blockers to UAT progress in a timely manner

• Support post-UAT retrospectives and contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices

Location and Terms

• Primary location: Spain flexible

• Travel: 25-30% maybe required to program locations for stakeholder workshops, governance, milestone events, and client relationship management

• Collaboration with offshore teams (e.g. India) and vendors across time zones - flexibility required

• Accenture Level 6 (Senior Manager) flex to Level 7 (Manager)

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading UAT on banking or financial services transformation program

• Strong understanding of retail banking or operations domain - e.g. client onboarding, Know your Customer "KYC", account management, or estates

• Demonstrated ability to manage and influence business stakeholders at various levels

• Experience coordinating structured test cycles with formal entry/exit criteria and sign-off governance

• Proficiency in test management tools - JIRA, X-Ray, or equivalent

• Manager-level experience - comfortable operating independently and leading a small team or workstream

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with managed services or operations platforms (e.g. SynOps or similar)

• Experience on Accenture or SI-led transformation engagements

• ISTQB or equivalent testing qualification

• Experience working in an Agile or hybrid delivery environment

What We Offer

• A high-profile role at the heart of a complex, multi-workstream banking transformation

• Exposure to AI-led delivery practices and modern testing approaches

• A collaborative, international team environment across onshore and offshore delivery

• Opportunity to make a tangible impact on business outcomes and go-live success

At Accenture, a company recognized as a Great Place To Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, thanks to technology and our facilities, allows us to maintain the essential human connection to work with our teams and clients. This connection enables us to uphold our culture of inclusion and diversity and be, according to Refinitiv, the most diverse company in the world.

Additionally, we offer you other benefits such as:

• Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance
• Medical service and wellness programs
• Flexible compensation program and stock purchase
• Flexibility programs (schedules, days off, vacations…)
• Individualized training itinerary
• Sustainability programs and Accenture Foundation
• Employee network for diversity
• Other benefits: Bankinter office with special conditions and profit sharing

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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