IT Quality Assurance Lead

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At EIT we are seeking an experienced IT Quality Assurance Lead who will be responsible for the planning, coordinating, and governing of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities across all IT change initiatives, including both project-driven delivery releases and Business-as-Usual (BAU) enhancements. The role acts as the bridge between business stakeholders, delivery teams, and technology teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements, are fit for purpose, and can be released into production with minimal risk.

The successful candidate will establish and maintain UAT standards, coordinate business testers, manage test execution, track defects, and provide testing governance across the end-to-end change lifecycle.

• Own the end-to-end UAT process for IT deliverables across project and BAU release cycles.
• Develop and maintain UAT strategies, plans, schedules, and test approaches aligned to delivery timelines.
• Define UAT entry and exit criteria and ensure testing readiness before execution.
• Coordinate UAT activities across multiple concurrent releases and initiatives.
• Manage testing risks, dependencies, assumptions, and issues through to resolution.
• Ensure appropriate business representation and stakeholder participation throughout testing activities.

• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Product Owners, SMEs, and Delivery Managers to review requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Support the creation and review of UAT test scenarios, test scripts, and test data.
• Coordinate test execution and ensure adequate coverage of business processes, integrations, and end-to-end workflows.
• Monitor progress against plans and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Ensure all critical defects are appropriately prioritised, tracked, and resolved before release.

• Act as the primary point of contact for all UAT-related activities.
• Facilitate defect triage sessions between business and technical teams.
• Engage with business stakeholders to gain testing sign-off and release approval.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and recommendations to project boards, delivery teams, and senior management.
• Build strong relationships across business, technology, operations, and support functions.

• Support delivery and BAU release cycles by providing test readiness and go/no-go recommendations.
• Validate production deployment outcomes through post-release verification activities.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, testing outcomes, defects, and release decisions.
• Contribute to change governance and release management processes.

• Define and maintain UAT standards, templates, processes, and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify opportunities for test…