SPECTRAFORCE is seeking a Project Manager specializing in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Business Readiness. This role is responsible for planning and executing comprehensive UAT across a large enterprise transformation, ensuring that systems are validated against real-world business processes and that the organization is prepared for adoption.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the User Acceptance Testing approach for a complex, multi phase enterprise program
- Ensure UAT scope reflects critical business processes, integrations, and end to end scenarios
- Establish clear UAT entry and exit criteria aligned with program governance and readiness expectations
- Mobilize business process owners, subject matter experts, and stakeholders to participate fully in UAT
- Set and enforce expectations for business roles, responsibilities, timelines, and test execution
- Maintain discipline to keep the business aligned and engaged throughout all UAT cycles
- Partner with IT testing teams to coordinate development and validation of UAT test cases
- Lead UAT execution, tracking progress, coverage, and outcomes
- Ensure defects are logged, prioritized, resolved, re tested, and formally closed
- Validate that all critical and high severity issues are addressed prior to UAT completion
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate testing and readiness risks
- Drive mitigation plans for gaps that threaten adoption or stability
- Ensure test data availability, environment readiness, and user access
- Coordinate resolution of environment or data constraints impacting UAT
- Support cutover rehearsals and business readiness checkpoints
- Support during hypercare
- Plan, coordinate, and track knowledge transfer from vendors to internal teams
- Ensure documentation, training materials, and sessions are complete, accurate, and usable
- Confirm knowledge transfer supports long term operational ownership and reduced vendor reliance
- Serve as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and IT testing teams
- Align UAT activities with broader delivery, cutover, and readiness plans
- Identify readiness risks early and drive timely corrective action
- As needed, support cross initiative business readiness efforts aligned to separation and Day 1 independence, ensuring testing outcomes enable confident go live decisions
- Maintain clear reporting on UAT status, risks, issues, and gaps
- Provide fact based readiness assessments to support go live decision making
- Ensure UAT outcomes support confident deployment and operational stability
Requirements:
- Experience leading business side testing or readiness efforts in large enterprise programs
- Strong understanding of business processes and end to end operational flows
- Proven ability to mobilize, influence, and hold cross functional stakeholders accountable
- Comfort operating in complex, fast paced, and ambiguous environments
- Ensures systems are validated through thorough, business driven testing
- Brings structure, discipline, and follow through to UAT execution
- Drives closure of defects and readiness gaps
- Builds strong partnerships across business and IT to enable successful adoption