Project Manager (UAT & Business Readiness)

Position Title: Project Manager – User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Business ReadinessWork Location: RemoteAssignment Duration: 9 months (Possibility of extension)Position Summary:

The Project Manager, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Business Readiness, is a business side Program Manager accountable for planning, mobilizing, and executing comprehensive User Acceptance Testing across a large, multi phase enterprise transformation.

This role ensures systems are validated against real world business processes and end to end operational scenarios, defects are fully resolved, and the organization is prepared for adoption.

Background & Context:

The role also supports broader GPO initiatives and business readiness activities required for separation and independence from client, ensuring operating teams are prepared to execute independently at go live.

Key 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.

Qualification & Experience:

• 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..