Project Manager III - UAT

Centene Corporation•Remote-MO, MO

2d•$87,700 - $157,800

About The Position

The Project Manager III coordinates operational testing activities across cross-functional teams and stakeholders while managing multiple large projects. The role maintains key project artifacts, testing requirements, risks, issues, and status updates. It requires strong communication and strategic-thinking skills and experience with testing, quality assurance, Agile, or user acceptance testing (UAT). The position plans, organizes, monitors, and oversees complex projects using cross-functional teams to deliver defined requirements and meet company strategic objectives. It manages the full project life cycle, including requirements gathering, project planning and scheduling, resource and budget management, execution, deployment, and closure. The Project Manager uses corporate and industry-standard project management tools and techniques, contributes to maintaining project management methodology and department procedures, and keeps detailed project documentation. The role provides leadership and communicates project status to stakeholders, negotiates resources and solutions to issues and risks, coordinates cross-functional meetings, and supplies functional and technical knowledge across business and technical areas. It monitors project deliverables—including design documents, test plans, training materials, and operations documentation—for quality standards. The position also leads projects involving UAT, operational, end-to-end, or regression testing, or production-readiness validation, and understands testing planning, scenario development, execution, defect management, retesting, and sign-off or attestation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 4 years of project management and implementation or program management experience.
Proficiency with MS Office applications and project management tools.
Experience working with and leading diverse groups and in matrix-managed environments.
Demonstrated experience leading projects that include UAT, operational testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, or production-readiness validation.
Understanding of the testing lifecycle, including test planning, scenario development, execution, defect management, retesting, and sign-off or attestation.
Experience identifying and escalating testing risks, defects, environment or data dependencies, development delays, and schedule impacts.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.
PMP, PgMP, or CAPM certification.
Experience with testing, quality assurance, Agile, or UAT.

Responsibilities

Plan, organize, monitor, and oversee complex projects using cross-functional teams to meet defined requirements and company strategic objectives.
Manage the full project life cycle, including requirements gathering, project plans and schedules, resource and budget management, execution, deployment, and closure.
Use corporate and industry-standard project management tools and techniques.
Assist with establishing and maintaining corporate project management methodology and department procedures.
Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, action items, issue lists, and risk management plans.
Provide project leadership and communicate status to stakeholders, including through written executive summaries when needed.
Negotiate with stakeholders to identify resources, resolve issues, and mitigate risks.
Coordinate cross-functional meetings to meet stakeholder expectations and company objectives.
Provide functional and technical knowledge across business and technical areas.
Monitor project deliverables for adherence to quality standards, including design documents, test plans, training materials, and operations documentation.
Lead projects involving UAT, operational testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, or production-readiness validation.
Support the testing lifecycle, including planning, scenario development, execution, defect management, retesting, and sign-off or attestation.
Identify and escalate testing risks, defects, environment or data dependencies, development delays, and schedule impacts before they affect go-live.