Urgent Hiring: UAT Lead – Medicare / Healthcare Testing

Priority: Urgent
Location: Hartford, CT (Preferred); Dallas, TX or Remote for exceptional candidates

Experience: 8–12+ Years

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced UAT Lead – Medicare / Healthcare Testing to lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for enterprise healthcare payer applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong Medicare domain knowledge, healthcare testing expertise, and proven experience managing end-to-end UAT activities, stakeholder coordination, defect management, and production readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Own UAT strategy, planning, test execution, defect management, and business sign-off.

• Collaborate with business users, product owners, business analysts, QA, and engineering teams to define testing scope and acceptance criteria.

• Develop UAT plans, test scenarios, test cases, traceability matrices, and execution schedules.

• Validate Medicare workflows, including eligibility, enrollment, benefits, claims, prior authorization, utilization management, and care management.

• Coordinate test data, testing environments, business tester readiness, and cross-application dependencies.

• Lead defect triage, prioritization, retesting, regression testing, and issue escalation.

• Track and report testing progress, coverage, defect trends, risks, and release readiness.

• Facilitate business acceptance and support go-live readiness decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software testing, QA, or UAT, with demonstrated UAT leadership experience.

• Strong understanding of Medicare payer domain and healthcare business workflows.

• Ability to translate business requirements into realistic end-to-end acceptance test scenarios.

• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.

• Hands-on experience with testing tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or ALM.

• Strong communication, coordination, analytical, and defect management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Medicare Advantage.

• Knowledge of CMS regulations and HIPAA compliance.

• Experience with healthcare EDI transactions:

  • 834 – Enrollment

  • 837 – Healthcare Claims

  • 835 – Payment/Remittance Advice

  • 270/271 – Eligibility and Benefits Verification

• SQL-based data validation experience.

• Healthcare integration testing experience.

Key Skills to Look For

• UAT Leadership

• Medicare / Medicare Advantage

• Healthcare Payer Domain

• End-to-End Testing

• Test Planning & Execution

• Defect Management

• Jira / Azure DevOps / ALM

• Healthcare EDI Transactions

• SQL Validation

• Production & Go-Live Readiness