User Acceptance Tester

The User Acceptance Testing (UAT) analyst is responsible for ensuring the code delivered by IT meets both functionality specified by the Business Analysts and the meets the ultimate needs of the business. They are responsible for reviewing and understanding the business requirements, creating a comprehensive set of testing to cover the functionality both in isolation and in combination, and to perform the tests themselves. Ultimately it is their responsibility to identify the defects and document the circumstances the defect was identified and able to retest their defects.
The UAT analyst will:
collaborate with key business stakeholders and IT in the analysis and delivery of enhancements and projects
coordinate, and execute tests to validate the solution delivered meets the business needs
provide oversight for business readiness plans, including communication, training and production validation
provide mentorship and guidance to other business analysts
Responsibilities include:
Analysis and interpretation of Business Requirements, and where necessary, elicitation of further information from Business Analysts and Product Owners
Creation of test scenarios per user story to be validated by the Business Lead, scripts and other UAT documentation including the identification and extraction of custom data for use in testing
Execution of UAT against previously defined and signed-off business requirements or user stories, including fixed defects ready for retest
Collation and reporting of test results for all documented test scenarios
Provision of information to relevant parties to allow informed decisions to be made
Highlighting key issues and problems relating to the product sign-off once the testing phase is complete
Establish good working relationships within IT and across the Business teams
Be part of a cross functional team and advise this team on testability of business requirements
Carry out analysis of business requirements as part of the review cycle/signoff process and give recommendation to Business Leads
Support and enable delivery of projects through completion
% of Time
Accountability:
95% User Acceptance Testing; planning, preparation, execution, reporting
5% User Acceptance Testing team continuous improvement
Skills:
5 years' experience as a testing analyst
5 years' experience working at a professional services firm
Prefer someone with real experience or high degree of familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies
Ability to independently develop and precisely follow test scripts with attention to detail, document findings
Ability to independently schedule UAT tasks; excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to create strong relationships in a professional setting, the ability to multitask
Strong analysis, evaluation and problem-solving skills
Must be a self-starter with a sense of urgency, strong work ethic and results oriented team player
Experience working on large global projects
Ability to review both business and technical documentation
Good understanding of the SDLC and cross departmental co-operation
Familiarity with CRM systems, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS service models
Strong familiarity with MS Office and related products (MS Excel, MS Projects, MS Visio, Sharepoint),very good understanding of Test Tracking and Execution tools like HP ALM, Jeera; Familiarity with MS Visual Studio/Azure DevOps is a plus