UAT Test Lead (New Digital Bank)

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced UAT Test Lead to establish and lead the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) function for a new digital bank. This role is responsible for ensuring business readiness and end-to-end validation of banking systems before go-live.

The Test Lead will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, operations, technology teams, and vendors to ensure that delivered solutions meet business requirements, regulatory expectations, and operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage end-to-end UAT cycles across multiple workstreams
• Ensure test coverage across customer journeys, products and operational processes
• Lead and coach UAT analysts and business testers in writing effective test cases, executing UAT and logging quality defects
• Engage business stakeholders and drive active participation in UAT
• Oversee defect management and prioritization based on business risk
• Coordinate environment and test data readiness with IT teams
• Provide UAT input into overall go-live readiness assessment
• Deliver clear testing dashboards and status reporting to management
• Identify testing risks and escalate early with mitigation plans

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software testing / QA, with test leadership experience
• Solid understanding of requirements traceability, test coverage and defect lifecycle
• Strong stakeholder management across business, IT, and vendors
• Experience in banking or financial services is preferred (core banking, payments, lending, digital channels, AML, etc.)
• Ability to manage multiple streams and tight delivery timelines
• Experience in large transformation and multinational environment is preferred