We are looking for a User Acceptance Test (UAT) & Business Readiness Lead to design, embed, and lead a scalable, enterprise-wide testing capability across the full change lifecycle.
You'll ensure that the end users across Head Office and Adviser populations are supported through robust, end-to-end testing covering functionality, usability, workflows, business processes, data, and regulatory outcomes.
Operating within a regulated financial services environment, you'll strengthen IT Quality Assurance by delivering a business-led acceptance and readiness approach - ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, safe to release, and backed by clear, auditable evidence.
This is a hybrid role based 3 days a week in the Leeds office.
The benefits:
- Salary - up to £45,000
- Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 7.5%
- Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection - 1x salary
- Death in service - 4x salary
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.
Key Accountabilities:
- Define and own a standardised, risk-based UAT and Business Readiness Testing framework aligned to the Change lifecycle.
- Establish clear acceptance criteria, entry/exit controls and go-live readiness standards, linked back to the business case and business outcomes / requirements.
- Plan and lead UAT validating end-to-end customer and adviser journeys, workflows and controls.
- Accountable for coordinating and securing formal business acceptance and readiness sign-off prior to go-live.
- Produce inspection-ready evidence supporting audit and regulatory assurance.
- Operate as a fungible testing lead contributing to functional and non-functional testing where required.