Quality Assurance & UAT Manager, Commercial Real Estate

Cognizant

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Remote
Location
Newark, NJ
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$71,100–$112,500 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Quality Assurance & UAT Manager, Commercial Real Estate

The Quality Assurance & UAT Manager – Commercial Real Estate joins the Technology and Product team to lead enterprise-wide quality assurance and user acceptance testing initiatives for business-critical technology solutions. This role involves owning the business-facing UAT phase for pre-production releases, transforming product requirements into test scenarios, and coordinating defect triage. You will establish program-wide quality gates, provide Go/No-Go recommendations, and lead, mentor, and develop QA professionals. Key responsibilities include driving defect governance, root cause analysis, and quality metrics while ensuring end-to-end traceability for audit and regulatory compliance. Required skills include experience managing UAT planning, release management, and quality governance processes. The role specifically requires commercial real estate domain expertise to support large-scale technology programs and digital transformation initiatives within the commercial real estate sector.

What you'll do

  • Lead the business-facing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase for all pre-production releases.
  • Transform product requirements into test scenarios and facilitate stakeholder walkthroughs.
  • Establish and govern program-wide quality gates and provide independent Go/No-Go recommendations.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop QA professionals while managing resource planning and capacity.
  • Ensure end-to-end traceability and compliance across requirements, test cases, and defects.
  • Drive defect governance, root cause analysis, and quality metrics to provide predictive risk insights.
  • Implement AI-enabled testing practices and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance release quality.

What we're looking for

  • Strong experience leading Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing programs for enterprise applications.
  • Commercial Real Estate domain expertise is required.
  • Proven experience managing UAT planning, coordination, execution, metrics reporting, and stakeholder communications.
  • Hands-on experience with release management, defect management, and quality governance processes.
  • Experience establishing quality gates, test strategies, and Go/No-Go assessments for large-scale technology programs.
  • Experience managing a QA team.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across business, product, technology, and executive stakeholder groups.
  • Experience leveraging AI-enabled testing and quality engineering tools (preferred).

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