Location: Onsite in Sunnyvale, CA

Manager notes :

PLM/Teamcenter is mandatory for this role

Salesforce is not mandatory

Flexible in rate for right candidate

JD:

* 8+ years of experience managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as a test lead for complex, highly integrated projects

* Understanding of sales and sales operations processes in consumer channel sales or similar environment is highly preferred

* Well versed in multiple styles of Release and Change Management processes including Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative; Experience in an Agile environment is a must

* Hands-on experience with Salesforce platform is preferred

* Understanding of test automation framework design models and best practices

* Solid understanding of project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels

* Ability to facilitate brainstorming sessions to gather lessons learned from implementation with business and BPR, and Information Technology group (IS&T)

* Excellent teamwork and ability to influence others (horizontally and vertically) to instill accountability to achieve results

* Experience working on projects for teams based outside the U.S.

* Strong level of customer focus and attention to detail

* Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment and multi tasking

* High level of professionalism, energy and sense of urgency to "make things happen"

In this role, you will :

* Facilitate successful release of system enhancements / new functionalities from development to production

* Create Release processes and documentation to minimize customer impact during changes

Management of end to end UAT activities including test process management, team coordination and communication of test results

* Lead cross-functional team to support each Release project plan and post Release/Change review and coach other PM's

* Work closely with project team to understand business requirements

* Review requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable

* Develop test strategy, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size

* Create and maintain the test data for UAT scripts.

* Create, maintain, and report UAT metrics including SLAs and KPIs

* Validate that user expectations are achieved during the testing process

* Document and communicate UAT related risks to Project Management

* Coordinate smoke testing, facilitate sales environment planning and PROD refreshes, and review master data flows

* Facilitate triage calls and drive issues to resolution with IS&T and business partners to get closure on open issues

* Create and maintain overall UAT knowledge repository for the BPR team

* Provide UAT best practices and templates; Incorporate lessons learned to improve test planning and execution

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