UAT Lead/ QE Lead

Job Title: UAT/QE Lead Location: Hybrid to Newark, NJ Rate: $55/hr on W2 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 independent 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