Senior UAT & QA Lead: Test Strategy & Automation

Avacend; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avacend is seeking a Senior UAT & Business Analyst to lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), test strategy development, and QA coordination across enterprise systems and applications. The role bridges business stakeholders, SMEs, owners, developers, vendors, and testing teams to ensure release readiness and regulatory alignment.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in manual and automated testing, UAT leadership, regression testing, and requirements management, with hands-on QA tools such as

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in QA, UAT, and/or Business Analysis supporting enterprise systems.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation, including automation strategy and transitioning manual testing to automated solutions.
• Experience developing test strategies, test cases, test scripts, and executing functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing.
• Experience analyzing business and functional requirements, developing use cases, and translating business needs into testable scenarios.
• Experience with data quality validation, data reconciliation, enterprise applications, interfaces, and reporting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar QA/test management tools.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestComplete, Power Automate, UFT, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Power BI and/or Microsoft Fabric.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions to support requirements gathering, solution validation, and testing readiness.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, SMEs, Business System Owners, vendors, technical teams, and project managers to analyze and document business and functional requirements.
• Perform both Business Analyst and UAT responsibilities based on project and operational needs.
• Develop and maintain UAT strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and testing approaches.
• Review business requirements, functional specifications, system designs, interfaces, and workflows to ensure complete and risk-based test coverage.
• Create, execute, and maintain manual and automated test scripts for functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, data validation, and UAT testing.
• Lead UAT activities including test execution, issue tracking, test evidence, business validation, and release readiness.
• Partner with vendors and technical teams to align Unit Testing, SIT, and UAT activities and improve overall testing coverage.
• Manage testing timelines, dependencies, risks, deliverables, and readiness activities.
• Facilitate requirements walkthroughs, knowledge-sharing sessions, and testing reviews.
• Manage the complete defect lifecycle, including identification, logging, triage, prioritization, escalation, retesting, and resolution validation.
• Track and communicate testing metrics, defect trends, test coverage, quality risks, and UAT results to stakeholders and leadership.
• Review and enhance regression test suites to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Lead test automation initiatives by identifying automation opportunities, developing automation strategies, recommending tools/frameworks, and implementing automated regression solutions.
• Support post-implementation validation, production issue analysis, and continuous process improvement.

Skills

UAT leadership

Test strategy development

Regression testing

Defect management

Business process analysis

Requirements management

Manual testing

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Smartsheet

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

TestComplete

Power Automate

UFT

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

.NET

Angular

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

SharePoint

Job description

Avacend is seeking a Senior UAT & Business Analyst to lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), test strategy development, and QA coordination across enterprise systems and applications. The role bridges business stakeholders, SMEs, owners, developers, vendors, and testing teams to ensure release readiness and regulatory alignment.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in manual and automated testing, UAT leadership, regression testing, and requirements management, with hands-on QA tools such as