User Acceptance Testing Analyst

Title: User Acceptance Testing Analyst
Location: Vienna, VA (HYBRID)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract with possible extensions
Compensation: $45/hour - $51/hour
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

The Fraud Systems team is seeking an experienced contractor to provide User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support for system enhancements, releases, issue resolution, and business initiatives. The contractor will ensure business requirements are met and system changes function as expected prior to implementation.

This role supports a blended UAT model consisting of both manual and automation-assisted testing. The tester will perform hands‑on UAT when appropriate and review screenshots and other evidence generated through automated test execution. Automation may perform repeatable test steps and capture evidence; however, the UAT tester remains responsible for validating business outcomes and determining the final test result.

This role will also prepare and condition test accounts and test data, develop reusable and automation‑ready test cases, document testing results, and support continuous improvement of Fraud Systems testing practices.

• Develop and maintain UAT plans, test cases, test scripts, and supporting documentation.
• Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Develop comprehensive, repeatable test cases with clear preconditions, test data, account‑conditioning requirements, expected results, and validation points.
• Create, condition, maintain, and validate test accounts and test data required to execute UAT scenarios.
• Troubleshoot test-account and test-data issues that prevent successful test execution.
• Perform hands‑on manual UAT, including functional, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Execute testing for system changes, releases, defect resolutions, and business initiatives.
• Develop reusable test cases and assets that support future automated execution.
• Review screenshots and other evidence generated through automation‑assisted testing and validate results against business requirements.
• Determine test disposition, including Pass, Fail, Blocked, or Requires Additional Validation.
• Perform additional manual validation when automated results or evidence are incomplete or inconclusive.
• Identify, document, track, retest, and validate defects and issues.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, test data, results, evidence, and defects.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, automation resources, and project teams throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Support release readiness, issue triage, and post‑implementation validation activities.
• Maintain testing evidence and documentation in accordance with applicable governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, efficiency, repeatability, and automation readiness.
• Communicate testing status, risks, issues, blockers, and recommendations to stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 5–10 years of UAT, quality assurance, business validation, or related testing experience.
• Proven experience developing and executing high‑quality UAT test plans, test cases, test scripts, and scenarios.
• Strong hands‑on experience with functional, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Experience reviewing business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria and translating them into comprehensive test scenarios.
• Experience creating and conditioning test accounts and test data, including establishing required account states, attributes, prerequisites, and…