UAT Lead

Pay: 90-100/hr INC

Contract Duration: 12 months + possible extensions/conversion

Work Arrangement: 3x hybrid, downtown Toronto.

We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.

Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience across UAT leadership, business testing, or large-scale enterprise program delivery, with substantial experience specifically owning UAT.

• Previous experience serving as the overall UAT Lead for a large, complex enterprise transformation, rather than solely supporting QA or individual testing workstreams.

• Demonstrated experience developing and owning UAT strategy, planning, governance, business readiness, defect management, and sign-off.

• Experience leading end-to-end UAT across multiple releases, workstreams, upstream source systems, platforms, and downstream consumers.

• Strong understanding of Finance processes and data, ideally including areas such as Management Reporting, Financial Reporting, General Ledger, Allocations, Profitability, Cost Management, Treasury, Risk, or Regulatory Reporting.

• Experience working across complex data environments involving source systems, data warehouses/lakes, transformations, calculation engines, reporting platforms, reconciliations, and downstream data consumption.

• Proven ability to operate in a business-facing UAT capacity and provide credible challenge to both business and technology teams.

• Experience working with large stakeholder groups and influencing senior Finance, Technology, Risk, Operations, and program leaders.

• Ability to manage significant program complexity and understand upstream and downstream impacts beyond an individual application, feature, or small team.

• Strong experience with defect governance, risk management, executive-level reporting, escalation, and formal business sign-off.

• Strong understanding of structured SDLC and Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting cloud migration, data modernization, Finance transformation, or large-scale platform replacement programs.

• AWS or other cloud-environment experience.

• Test automation experience or exposure.

• Experience with modern analytics and reporting platforms such as Power BI or Kyvos.

• Experience working within a large banking or financial services environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• CPA, CFA, PMP, CBAP, Scrum, SAFe, or another relevant professional designation/certification.

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a UAT Lead to join a leading financial services organization supporting a large-scale, multi-year Finance and data transformation program.

This individual will own the end-to-end UAT strategy, planning, governance, and business readiness across a highly complex environment involving numerous upstream source systems, cloud-based data and processing platforms, downstream applications, reporting tools, and Finance stakeholders.

The program is modernizing core management reporting processes and migrating data acquisition, sourcing, and transformations from legacy on-premise environments to a cloud-based solution. The broader ecosystem includes hundreds of data sources, significant transformation logic, modern reporting and analytics capabilities, and a large downstream user base that relies on the data for reporting, decision-making, and pricing.

This is a UAT leadership role rather than a QA/test execution role. The successful candidate will bring significant experience independently leading UAT for large enterprise programs, managing complexity across upstream and downstream dependencies, and partnering directly with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall UAT strategy, scope, operating model, governance, test plan, and entry/exit criteria across multiple releases and end-to-end testing cycles.

• Establish the UAT approach early in the transformation, ensuring the program is prepared for future testing phases as development progresses.

• Coordinate UAT across Finance SMEs, Technology, QA, upstream data providers, downstream applications, Analytics, Risk, Controllers, Treasury, and other business stakeholders.

• Ensure comprehensive end-to-end testing coverage across data flows, integrations, business processes, transformations, reporting, reconciliations, and downstream impacts.

• Manage dependencies across a highly complex data ecosystem with numerous source systems and downstream consumers.

• Identify testing risks, business-coverage gaps, environment constraints, data-readiness concerns, and cross-release dependencies.

• Lead defect triage and escalation, including differentiating true defects from data, requirements, design, environment, and business-process issues.

• Challenge test results and remediation decisions from a business and Finance perspective rather than simply administering the testing process.

• Provide consolidated UAT status, risk, defect, and readiness reporting to senior program and Finance stakeholders.

• Drive business decisions, residual-risk acceptance, and formal sign-off with accountable business owners.

• Assess overall business readiness and provide clear recommendations supporting deployment decisions.