Salesforce UAT Lead — Business Testing & Readiness

Avacend Inc; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Avacend Inc. is seeking a Salesforce UAT Specialist to own the business-side testing cycle for Salesforce releases, ensuring IT delivers validated solutions for end-users.

The role acts as a bridge between business process teams, IT delivery, and testers, translating requirements into test scenarios and leading the execution window. This is coordination-focused and not a technical QA role; success is measured by coverage, tester readiness, defect logging discipline, and a clear go/no-go

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating UAT for enterprise apps, including scenario authoring and execution tracking.
• Hands-on Salesforce business user or analyst with familiarity of standard objects, profiles, and sandboxes.
• Ability to train and support non-technical users, creating job aids and session material.
• Proven ability to manage testers across regions and track blockers across release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Design and prepare end-to-end UAT scenarios and scripts reflecting how the business works, map requirements to scenarios, and maintain a traceability view.
• Identify and secure business testers, deliver onboarding, and provide guides and walkthroughs; hold office hours to unblock testers.
• Build UAT plans and schedules against IT release windows, assign scenarios, and track execution progress across the cycle.
• Triage defects for validity and severity, report cycle status, and deliver the UAT sign-off recommendation with conditions if any.

Skills

Test Scenario Design

Managing the UAT Cycle

Defect Management

Salesforce knowledge

Job description

Avacend Inc. is seeking a Salesforce UAT Specialist to own the business-side testing cycle for Salesforce releases, ensuring IT delivers validated solutions for end-users.

The role acts as a bridge between business process teams, IT delivery, and testers, translating requirements into test scenarios and leading the execution window. This is coordination-focused and not a technical QA role; success is measured by coverage, tester readiness, defect logging discipline, and a clear go/no-go