Senior UAT Tester

About Our Client

The organization operates in the public health technology sector, focusing on supporting Medicaid system enhancements and modernization efforts. It addresses challenges related to validating system functionality and ensuring that business requirements are met to facilitate successful project lifecycles and releases. The organization works closely with state agencies and vendors to maintain and improve the effectiveness of Medicaid technology systems.

About the Opportunity

The Senior UAT Tester role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing User Acceptance Testing for system enhancements, defect resolutions, and release cycles. This position plays a critical role in validating that system changes meet business and operational requirements, supporting release readiness, and ensuring smooth transitions during go-live and post-implementation phases.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and execute UAT activities for system enhancements, defect fixes, and releases.
• Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts, inventories, and acceptance criteria from requirements and workflows.
• Translate business, policy, operational, and technical needs into test scenarios.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, release validation, and production validation testing.
• Identify, document, prioritize, track, retest, and close defects and issues.
• Support UAT kickoff, daily huddles, defect triage, readiness reviews, stakeholder walkthroughs, go-live preparation, and post-release retrospectives.
• Coordinate with business users, vendors, IT leadership, project managers, and subject matter experts to confirm scenarios and support release readiness.
• Use Jira to track testing tasks, defects, milestones, and reporting.
• Maintain comprehensive UAT documentation in SharePoint.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, defects, and release readiness clearly to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with training, operations, policy, and change management teams to support release impact and training readiness.
• Support go-live readiness, release decisions, post-implementation validation, and follow-up activities.

Qualifications

• At least three years of recent experience in testing, quality assurance, business analysis, system implementation, or modernization.
• Experience supporting UAT across the testing lifecycle including scenario design, script development, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Ability to translate requirements, workflows, user stories, and acceptance criteria into test cases and validation evidence.
• Experience maintaining Test Script Inventories, traceability materials, defect logs, validation summaries, and status reporting.
• Proficiency in functional, regression, integration, release validation, or production validation testing.
• Experience using Jira or similar tools for defect tracking and test management.
• Strong communication skills for reporting progress, risks, and acceptance recommendations to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Medicaid, health and human services, eligibility, claims, encounter, MMIS, or integrated eligibility systems.
• Vendor-managed Medicaid systems or public sector technology environments.
• Release readiness and go-live preparation.
• Coordinating with cross-functional and vendor teams.

Pay

The base salary range targeted for this role is $90,000 to $120,000. Final salary will depend on experience, education, qualifications, and other relevant factors.