User Acceptance Testing (Uat) Analyst

A professional services firm in New Jersey is currently seeking a new User Acceptance Test (UAT) Analyst to join their team. In this role, the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Analyst will be 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.
Responsibilities:
The User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Analyst will:

• Analyze and interpret of Business Requirements, and where necessary, elicitation of further information from Business Analysts and Product Owners
• Create 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
• Execute UAT against previously defined and signed-off business requirements or user stories, including fixed defects ready for retest
• Handle the collation and reporting of test results for all documented test scenarios
• 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
• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience as a Testing Analyst
• Associate's and/or Bachelor's Degree
• Experience working on large global projects
• 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)
• Good understanding of Test Tracking and Execution tools, like HP ALM, Jeera, etc.

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with MS Visual Studio/Azure DevOps
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies