Risk User Acceptance Testing Senior Associate

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Integration, Collaboration, and Discovery
• Support an environment that ensures employees understand how their efforts contribute to overall business strategy
• Manage assigned book of work, partnering with leadership to plan the future supply and demand of resources required
• Evaluate the testing status of assigned projects while identifying and escalating critical risks
• Partner closely with Financial Risk and Governance teams to understand functional workflows, risk processes, and control expectations.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Teams to shape epic‑level acceptance criteria, ensuring they properly reflect FR&G user needs and regulatory considerations.
• Develop a strong understanding of end‑to‑end risk processes, including how users interact with systems, data, and controls.
• Partner with team to ensure maintenance of UAT templates and test logs in approved repositories in accordance with record‑retention standards.
• Maintain UAT templates and test logs in approved repositories in accordance with record‑retention standards.
• UAT Planning, Execution and Governance
• Drive UAT status governance (daily/regular reporting, risk/issues escalation, defect triage coordination) within Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or similar lifecycle tools, ensuring all acceptance criteria are validated.
• Mentor testers; standardize templates, evidence expectations, and execution discipline.
• Define UAT approach/plan for assigned projects and oversee execution across testers/workstreams
• Lead UAT scope definition, user acceptance validation, and support change/release readiness decisions.
• Ensure final UAT package is complete (templates, statistics, evidence) and stored appropriately at end of UAT.
• Analyze and interpret business requirements, risk policies, and control objectives to develop comprehensive user test plans and test cases.
• Review test plans and cases with business partners and obtain sign‑off to confirm comprehensive test coverage aligns with approved UAT scope and established entry criteria.
• Execute UAT in representative non‑production environments, ensuring functional behavior aligns with expectations and supports control effectiveness.
• Discover, report, and track defects using JIRA, collaborating with delivery teams on resolution and retesting.
• Validate system behavior not only for “happy path” (ideal, expected flow) scenarios but also for risk‑sensitive, exception‑mode, and control‑triggering scenarios.
• Contribute to the automation of UAT test cases, partnering with QA, engineering, or automation teams as needed.
• **NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of related experience leading SIT/UAT planning and execution and supporting signoffs in a controlled environment
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

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