User Acceptance Tester

YOUNGWILLIAMS INC•Ridgeland, MS

4h•Remote

About The Position

The User Acceptance Tester (UAT) will proactively communicate and collaborate with operations staff, developers, and testing staff to analyze user stories and business, technical, and functional requirements.

Requirements

Experience with software testing (writing test cases and detailed test scripts), and planning and executing test activities.
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestRail, etc.)
Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., LLMs) to accelerate test case generation, test data creation, defect analysis and summarization
Experience balancing automation vs. manual testing based on risk, value, and efficiency
Ability to report, prioritize, and track all defects to resolution
Ability to identify opportunities to reduce manual testing effort through automation and AI-assisted workflows
Familiarity with prompting techniques to generate precise, usable test outputs (not overly verbose or redundant)

Responsibilities

Coordinates testing efforts with internal business teams to get appropriate user scenarios for existing functionality
Creates clear, concise detail-oriented application UAT test plans and scripts
Coordinates testing efforts with business teams to obtain user scenarios for current functionality
Executes UAT test plans, document results, report and track any issues to developers for resolution, review all resolved incidents/issues, confirm work is completed
Investigates, triages, and resolves time-sensitive system issues reported by end users and other customers that require collaboration across business units
Creates and maintains Release Notes, User Manuals, and Training material
Provides positive communication and objective feedback to software development project team
Develops and maintains business knowledge
Validates successful implementation of system issues
Regular and timely attendance
Other duties as assigned