UAT/QE Lead@Remote, but Hybrid to Newark, NJ

Job Description: Job Title: UAT/QE Lead
Location: Can be Remote, but Hybrid to Newark, NJ preferred.
Duration: thru 4/30/2027 extension possible
W2 Rate :$40/hr
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. Commercial Real Estate Domain
2. UAT coordination
3. Data Testing

Job Description/ Responsibilities:
" Own the business-facing UAT phase in pre-production. Set the UAT strategy with the Technology & Product team
" Be the quality bridge between business and delivery. Turn Product requirements into real test scenarios, run stakeholder walkthroughs and defect triage, and lock down UAT readiness (test data, environment stability, onboarding).
" Establish program-wide quality gates for UAT and release, providing Consultant Go/No-Go assurance to program leadership
" Lead, mentor, and develop the QA team, setting objectives, driving capability uplift (including fully leveraging AI tools like Claude), and owning resource and capacity planning across the QA team.Ensure end-to-end traceability and QA compliance across requirements, test cases, defects, and releases to satisfy internal audit and regulatory obligations.
" Own defect governance and quality improvements driving root cause analysis when issues arise in testing / QA to make step-change improvements, predictive risk insights etc. that improve quality release over release

Years of Experience: 12 Years of Experience