UAT Manager

UAT Program Manager
Sydney
Salary: $160k Package

Looking for an experienced UAT Program Manager with a strong background in Banking or Financial Services. You will lead complex testing programs, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and driving successful business outcomes. We are seeking a highly organised professional to lead User Acceptance Testing across a large-scale enterprise transformation.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile program where you will be responsible for ensuring UAT readiness across multiple workstreams while working closely with business and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead the end to end planning, coordination, and execution of the User Acceptance Testing program.
2. Develop and manage the UAT strategy, schedule, milestones, and overall delivery plan.
3. Coordinate Business, Product, and Technology teams to ensure UAT readiness across all streams.
4. Manage dependencies across test data, environments, and test preparation activities.
5. Ensure UAT activities align with System Integration Testing completion and overall project timelines.
6. Monitor progress against key milestones and proactively manage delivery risks, issues, and blockers.
7. Facilitate governance meetings, provide regular status reporting, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
8. Drive successful completion of UAT, ensuring all required business sign offs are achieved.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

1. 8+ years’ experience in UAT, Test Management, or Program Management.
2. Previous experience delivering UAT programs within Banking, Financial Services, or Capital Markets environments is essential.
3. Proven experience managing large scale, multi stream UAT programs.
4. Strong planning, scheduling, coordination, and execution management skills.
5. Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder groups across business and technology teams.
6. Experience managing dependencies across test environments, test data, and upstream testing activities.
7. Strong problem solving, risk management, and decision-making capabilities.
8. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior business leaders.
9. Experience working within client facing or onsite delivery environments.

Highly Desirable

1. Experience delivering transformation programs within Banking or Financial Services.
2. Strong understanding of the end to end testing lifecycle, including System Integration Testing through to User Acceptance Testing.
3. Experience working in regulated enterprise environments with strong governance requirements.

What’s on Offer

1. Opportunity to lead UAT delivery for a major enterprise transformation within the Banking and Financial Services sector.
2. Work alongside senior business, product, and technology stakeholders.
3. High profile role with significant ownership and influence across multiple project streams.
4. Collaborative and supportive team environment.
5. Competitive remuneration and excellent career development opportunities.

If you have a proven track record of delivering complex UAT programs within Banking or Financial Services and enjoy working in fast paced enterprise environments, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to be considered.