UAT Tester Job Description
UAT tester
provides direction to the QA team to design, plan and execute highly complex system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
UAT Tester Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Apply code coverage techniques (boundary value, McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity)
May be assigned as point of contact (POC) for a minor task, project, or release
Creates and maintains user acceptance test/business scenarios for projects simultaneously
Participate in Post Production Validation (PPV) planning, design and execution leading up to and including actual deployment date and beyond
Be the first of contact for Credit Risk Management on all system production issues
Liaise with the business analyst to analyse complex requirements
Designing, Creating and running UAT test Cases
Identify the data for testing, analyse the tests results & reporting on metrics
Familiar with best practises & standards - ISO/IEC 27001 & Test Maturity model integration
Incredible chance to learn & progress as part of a high performance team in a fast paced environment
UAT Tester Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for UAT Tester
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, ITIL, ISTQB, ISEB
Education for UAT Tester
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the UAT tester job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Business, Education, Information Systems, Business/Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Management, Business Administration/Management, Communication
Skills for UAT Tester
Desired skills for UAT tester include:
Techniques
Software Development Life Cycle
Tools
Decision tables
Equivalence partitioning
Methodology
QA Best Practices
QA techniques: boundary analysis
QTP
System development life cycle & SQA methodologies
Desired experience for UAT tester includes:
Understanding of data processing functions including batch cycles, JCL, job control systems and online transaction processing
Strong Experience in User Acceptance Testing
Experience in CMMI process areas like verification and validation
Experience with client server and Web based applications
Ability to work under pressures and achieve good results
Work experience as UAT Tester
UAT Tester Examples
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UAT Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of UAT tester. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UAT tester
- Direct large projects, multiple mid to large project or other process improvement initiatives through the entire Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC) using standard project processes and tools
- Strong VB scripting, Excel Macros, QTP/UFT/Selenium skills
- Demonstrate understanding of formal software test design techniques
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and specifically QA process and test methodologies
- Entrusting by team leader to assume lead responsibilities as/when required
- Mentoring/training less experienced staff
- Escalate issues encounter during the testing
- Train testers to ensure good quality of testing
- Create test cases and document in ALM application
- Prepare Testing artifacts as needed, such as Test Plan, Test Strategy, RTM
Qualifications for UAT tester
- Prior experience participating in requirements definition
- Ability to estimate work effort
- Min 2 years of testing experience or operations background
- Preferably have knowledge of AOS and/or Finacle System
- Analyzes active issues to assess impact to training, documentation
- Experience documenting business requirements and/or flows and can prepare tests which are realistic to the business
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Our growing company is looking for an UAT tester. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UAT tester
- Reviewing the UAT process to be in alignment with business goals
- Planning and analysis of Med D applications related to enrollment workflows and procedures in order to assist in the development of new or modified systems
- Writing testing plan and test artifacts for pre-enrollment application
- Create new test cases for CitiKYC system requirements and understand current state future state of the system
- Direct large projects, multiple mid to large project or other process improvement initiatives through the entire
- Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC) using standard project processes and tool
- UAT analysts will test new projects, updated programming and new automation
- UAT will track test results, compare them to provided requirements and identify items as defects, enhancement or user error
- UAT will translate identified defects into actionable items and will work with IT, product management and other teams to resolve noted defects
- UAT will be responsible for tracking outstanding items and seeing them to completion
Qualifications for UAT tester
- Work directly with project team to view system and business requirements, come up with test cases and test scripts from that
- Validate testing scenarios
- Experience with HP Quality Center (ALM) or Caliber, as a defect tracking tool, is a definite plus
- Understand the mortgage industry from front to back
- Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership skills, and the ability to learn as it pertains to an industry that is ever-changing
- This is a fast-paced, demanding environment
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UAT Tester Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of UAT tester. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UAT tester
- Analyzes active issues to assess impact to training, documentation, procedure
- Partner with functional areas to create, review and translate business and technical documents to create User Acceptance Test Plans and detailed Test Case sand scripts
- Maps more complex test cases to business requirements and tests plans
- Document Testing Results in Detail, Including Screenshots Where applicable, and ensure any issues are escalated as appropriate
- Identify and fully document all bugs discovered during test execution and communicate details of bugs to developer for remediation
- Document and maintain detailed user test cases, artifacts and sign off
- Work closely with business users to execute test plans
- Ability to facilitate working with external vendors for integration and unit testing purposes
- Participate in User Acceptance Testing - Testing administered on our RxCLAIM application and ancillary applications
- The majority of the day is spent on the computer and interfacing with various departments and other insurance / claims processors to resolve data issues
Qualifications for UAT tester
- Influence and advocate quality assurance within the team
- 5-10 years of experience in user experience testing of applications and systems
- Supports the UAT Test Lead in managing functional User Acceptance Testing and End to End testing activities on one large IT project, involving multiple threads of work, concurrently
- Expert in defect creation and defect management
- Experience partnering with multiple resources on projects
- Retail / eCommerce is preferred
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for an UAT tester. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for UAT tester
- Review and decompose requirements based on system enhancements in order to create and execute test scenarios, writing test plans and scripts, logging and tracking defects and working with business analytics to execute test scenarios
- Help ensure new system requirements / enhancements / changes are tested and delivered in a timely manner
- Provide consistent and repeatable testing process for UAT
- Improve processes and reduce post implementation issues
- Lead all aspects of Merchant Services readiness for Business and IT systems implementations, ensuring the delivery of a quality program/project
- May manage a team of UAT leads / analysts in a direct or matrix environment
- Manage the creation of both Manual and Automation testing
- Automation script development skills (well versed in programming language)
- Assist in the definition and documentation of test strategies
- Act as a key contributor in the continued automation development and Frameworks Maintenance
Qualifications for UAT tester
- Bachelor's degree required with a strong preference for an IT related field
- 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Program or Project Management capacity in IT or Business environment
- General knowledge of underwriting rules and principles across all lines of business
- Ability to read and work with programming requirements
- College degree and 4-6 years of related work experience
- Experience with E2E testing of huge projects is plus
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of UAT tester. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for UAT tester
- Ensure automation tests adhere to established process and standards
- Experience with web testing methods and writing SQL queries (SQL Server 2012 and higher)
- Write Automation scripting and queries
- Communicate effectively (verbal and written) on both a technical and business level
- Demonstrate ability to gather and understand requirements
- Utilize good analysis skills in order to aid in trouble shooting and problem solving
- Demonstrate good testing and defect management skills
- Conduct investigation and analytical work to assist BRD/Design tasks of Transaction Banking
- Communicate with Head Office (primarily with Transaction Banking Division
- Create project plan, monitor progress, periodical status update report generation
Qualifications for UAT tester
- Experience with Mainframe testing is a plus
- 1+ years of experience writing test cases from business requirement and executing / validating test results
- 1+ years of experience performing business process and/or system analysis
- 1+ years of process improvement and/or updating / streamlining processes based on new requirements
- Ability to understand and clearly articulate business and system functionality requirements and/or process flows as it relates to test cases and test results
- Must be able to work overtime and flexible schedule during holidays and peak period (November through January)