UAT Test Lead

CACI International; Illinois; On-site; USD 90,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI Internationalis seeking an experienced UAT Test Lead to plan, coordinate, and lead User Acceptance Testing for the JTMS SAP S/4HANA implementation. You will align testing with program increments, work with government stakeholders, product owners, and test teams in a SAFe environment to ensure readiness for operations.

The role requires strong leadership, test governance, and evidence-driven defect management, with a focus on end-to-end scenarios that validate mission and business workflows

Qualifications

• Security clearance: Active Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years in software testing, QA, or business acceptance testing, including experience leading UAT for large-scale enterprise or ERP systems.
• UAT leadership: Demonstrated experience planning and leading UAT events involving business users, product owners, subject matter experts, and technical teams.
• Agile Methodology: Strong working knowledge of SAFe Framework, SDLC, Agile development practices, and acceptance testing within iterative delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the UAT strategy, plan, schedule, scope, entry/exit criteria, roles, responsibilities, and readiness activities aligned with JTMS program increments and releases.
• Coordinate end-to-end acceptance scenarios that validate mission and business workflows across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, Mendix applications, interfaces, and integrated systems.
• Work with Government JPO test representatives, product owners, business process owners, subject matter experts, and representative end users to identify UAT participants, scenarios, data, and expected outcomes.
• Lead development and review of UAT scenarios, test cases, test data, traceability, environment readiness, user access, and execution instructions before each UAT event.
• Facilitate UAT sessions, coordinate testers, monitor daily execution progress, resolve blockers, and ensure results and supporting evidence are captured consistently.
• Lead UAT defect triage, validate defect quality and severity, identify potential duplicates, coordinate retesting, and track issues through disposition and closure.
• Consolidate UAT results and provide status, pass/fail metrics, defect trends, risks, issues, and readiness recommendations to program leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Participate in PI planning, iteration planning, system demonstrations, retrospectives, and other SAFe ceremonies to ensure UAT needs and dependencies are addressed early.
• Conduct UAT retrospectives and implement improvements to processes, templates, tools, metrics, and stakeholder coordination.

Skills

UAT leadership

SAFe framework knowledge

Agile testing

Stakeholder coordination

Executive reporting

Test governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

ServiceNow CWM

SAP Fiori

S/4HANA knowledge

Job description

Job Title: UAT Test Lead Job Category: Engineering Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Local

The Opportunity

Join our team supporting USTRANSCOM's Joint Transportation Management System (JTMS), a mission-critical enterprise platform that modernizes transportation, logistics, and financial operations through SAP S/4HANA ERP integration. We're looking for an accomplished UAT Lead to plan, coordinate, and lead User Acceptance Testing for this large-scale SAP implementation. Your expertise in business-process validation, stakeholder coordination, test governance, and defect management will be essential to ensuring JTMS capabilities are ready for operational use. In this role, you'll partner with Government stakeholders, product owners, business users, developers, and test teams within a SAFe Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the UAT strategy, plan, schedule, scope, entry/exit criteria, roles, responsibilities, and readiness activities aligned with JTMS program increments and releases.
• Coordinate end-to-end acceptance scenarios that validate mission and business workflows across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, Mendix applications, interfaces, and integrated systems.
• Work with Government JPO test representatives, product owners, business process owners, subject matter experts, and representative end users to identify UAT participants, scenarios, data, and expected outcomes.
• Lead development and review of UAT scenarios, test cases, test data, traceability, environment readiness, user access, and execution instructions before each UAT event.
• Facilitate UAT sessions, coordinate testers, monitor daily execution progress, resolve blockers, and ensure results and supporting evidence are captured consistently.
• Lead UAT defect triage, validate defect quality and severity, identify potential duplicates, coordinate retesting, and track issues through disposition and closure.
• Consolidate UAT results and provide status, pass/fail metrics, defect trends, risks, issues, and readiness recommendations to program leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Participate in PI planning, iteration planning, system demonstrations, retrospectives, and other SAFe ceremonies to ensure UAT needs and dependencies are addressed early.
• Conduct UAT retrospectives and implement improvements to processes, templates, tools, metrics, and stakeholder coordination.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance (required).
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Experience: Minimum 7 years in software testing, quality assurance, or business acceptance testing, including experience leading UAT for large-scale enterprise or ERP systems.
• UAT Leadership: Demonstrated experience planning and leading UAT events involving business users, product owners, subject matter experts, and technical teams.
• Agile Methodology: Strong working knowledge of SAFe Framework, SDLC, Agile development practices, and acceptance testing within iterative delivery.

Desired

• Certifications: ISTQB, SAFe, or similar testing/Agile certification.
• Technical Skills: Experience with ServiceNow CWM (Collaborative Work Management) or comparable tools for test management, defect tracking, and reporting.
• SAP Experience: Experience with SAP Fiori, SAP Transportation Management (TM), or other S/4HANA business modules.
• Government Experience: Previous experience supporting federal agencies or Department of Defense clients.

Core Competencies

• Excellent facilitation, organization, analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and executive-level status reporting skills; ability to lead cross-functional teams.

What You Can Expect

A culture of integrity. At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust. CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth. Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.

Pay Range

• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Financial
• Retirement
• Family support
• Continuing education
• Time off benefits
• $90,300-$189,600

Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.