UAT Lead (n / PLM) at Sunnyvale, CA

Volto Consulting; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting seeks an experienced UAT Lead for an onsite role in Sunnyvale, CA. You will manage UAT for PLM/Teamcenter, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure release success across development to production with strong business-process expertise.

The role requires 8+ years in UAT leadership, deep knowledge of release management, and familiarity with Agile/Waterfall approaches. Salesforce experience is a plus, and you will coordinate with IS&T and business partners to drive outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading UAT for complex, highly integrated projects.
• Understanding of sales operations in consumer channel sales is preferred.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall and iterative release/change management.
• Salesforce platform experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of test automation framework design and best practices.
• Strong project management across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate end-to-end UAT activities from planning to sign-off.
• Lead cross-functional teams to support each release.
• Collaborate with IS&T and business partners to resolve issues.
• Develop test strategies, plans, and scripts across projects.
• Create, maintain and report UAT metrics (SLAs, KPIs).
• Coordinate smoke testing and PROD refreshes; manage data flows.
• Document risks and communicate with Project Management.
• Maintain a knowledge repository for the BPR team.

Skills

UAT Leadership

Release Management

Agile / Scrum

Test Planning

Stakeholder Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Project Governance

Communication Skills

Tools

Salesforce

Test Automation Concepts

Job description

Onsite role

Important Update: Need PLM UAT Lead (Strong PLM hands-on + UAT User Acceptance Testing with business-process expertise)

Job Title: UAT Lead (Teamcenter / PLM)

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Role Description

8+ years of experience managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as a test lead for complex, highly integrated projects

Understanding of sales and sales operations processes in consumer channel sales or similar environment is highly preferred

Well versed in multiple styles of Release and Change Management processes including Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative; Experience in an Agile environment is a must

Hands-on Experience With Salesforce Platform Is Preferred

Understanding of test automation framework design models and best practices

Solid understanding of project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels

Ability to facilitate brainstorming sessions to gather lessons learned from implementation with business and BPR, and Information Technology group (IS&T)

Excellent teamwork and ability to influence others (horizontally and vertically) to instill accountability to achieve results

Experience working on projects for teams based outside the U.S.

Strong level of customer focus and attention to detail

Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment and multi tasking

High level of professionalism, energy and sense of urgency to make things happen

In This Role, You Will

• Facilitate successful release of system enhancements / new functionalities from development to production
• Create Release processes and documentation to minimize customer impact during changes Management of end to end UAT activities including test process management, team coordination and communication of test results
• Lead cross-functional team to support each Release project plan and post Release/Change review and coach other PM s
• Work closely with project team to understand business requirements
• Review requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable
• Develop test strategy, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size
• Create and maintain the test data for UAT scripts.
• Create, maintain, and report UAT metrics including SLAs and KPIs
• Validate that user expectations are achieved during the testing process
• Document and communicate UAT related risks to Project Management
• Coordinate smoke testing, facilitate sales environment planning and PROD refreshes, and review master data flows
• Facilitate triage calls and drive issues to resolution with IS&T and business partners to get closure on open issues
• Create and maintain overall UAT knowledge repository for the BPR team
• Provide UAT best practices and templates; Incorporate lessons learned to improve test planning and execution