UAT Tester

Location: Vienna, VA | Type: Contract | Work Model: Hybrid – onsite and remote | Hours: 40 per week

About the role

Develop and maintain high-quality User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans, test cases, test scripts, and supporting documentation. Create comprehensive, repeatable, and well-structured test cases that align with business requirements and support future automation efforts. Ensure test cases are automation-ready by following established standards, maintaining clear test steps, expected results, and reusable test assets.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure complete testing coverage.
• Execute testing activities for system updates, enhancements, defect resolutions, releases, and business initiatives.
• Identify, document, track, and validate issues discovered during testing.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, and project teams to resolve testing-related issues and ensure requirements are met.
• Evaluate testing processes and identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and automation readiness.
• Support testing efforts across multiple initiatives and prioritize activities to meet project timelines and delivery commitments.
• Provide regular testing status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to project stakeholders.
• Support release readiness activities, including pre-implementation validation and post-implementation verification.
• Participate in issue triage, root cause discussions, and resolution reviews.
• Maintain testing documentation, evidence, and audit artifacts in accordance with compliance, governance, and organizational standards.
• Ensure testing deliverables meet quality expectations and support successful implementation of business solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts by promoting testing best practices and helping establish consistent standards for UAT and automation-ready test design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), quality assurance, or business validation experience.
• Proven experience developing high-quality UAT test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios.
• Experience reviewing and validating business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure complete test coverage.
• Demonstrated ability to create well-structured, reusable, and automation-ready test cases that support future automated testing efforts.
• Experience executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience documenting test results, defects, risks, and recommendations for resolution.
• Experience working in Agile and project-based environments supporting multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Experience using test management and defect tracking tools.
• Understanding of automated testing concepts and best practices.
• Experience designing test cases with automation readiness in mind, including maintaining consistent test data, clear expected results, and repeatable steps.
• Ability to identify opportunities for automation and collaborate with automation teams to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Experience ensuring testing documentation and test assets meet standards required for automated execution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong collaboration and partnership skills when working with business stakeholders, product owners, and project teams.
• Ability to communicate testing status, risks, issues, and recommendations effectively to stakeholders.
• Adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced, changing environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting fraud prevention, fraud operations, risk management, or financial services organizations.
• Experience working with automation testing tools and frameworks.
• Knowledge of test case design techniques and testing best practices.
• Experience preparing and maintaining automation-ready testing assets.
• Familiarity with continuous testing and quality management processes.
• Experience supporting complex system implementations and production releases.
• Experience with compliance, audit, and governance requirements related to testing activities.
• Ability to mentor team members on UAT best practices and quality test case development.

Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, and spending accounts.
• Life insurance and voluntary plans.
• Participation in a 401(k) plan.