Business Consultant, - UAT QA Lead - REMOTE at Nationwide

Job description

Are you passionate about being part of a team at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across projects, releases, and business processes. Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, developers, and QA teams to define UAT scope, objectives, timelines, and entry/exit criteria. Translate business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria into comprehensive UAT scenarios, test cases, and data requirements. Identify and coordinate appropriate business testers, clarify roles and responsibilities, and provide UAT guidance, training, and support. Develop and maintain UAT plans, schedules, test scripts, traceability matrices, status reports, and other required documentation. Coordinate test environments, system access, integrations, test data, and other readiness dependencies before testing begins. Facilitate UAT execution, monitor progress, remove blockers, and ensure testing remains aligned with business priorities and release milestones. Review, validate, and triage defects; ensure issues are documented with sufficient detail, prioritized appropriately, assigned to owners, and retested through resolution. Track test results, requirements coverage, defect trends, risks, and outstanding issues; communicate status and recommendations to project and business leadership. Evaluate UAT outcomes and provide a clear go/no-go recommendation for production release based on agreed acceptance criteria and residual risk. Ensure business and compliance requirements are adequately tested and that required approvals, signoffs, and audit evidence are completed. Drive continuous improvement of UAT processes, templates, tools, metrics, and testing practices. Mentor UAT testers and promote consistent, risk-based, and customer-focused quality practices across delivery teams. Support post-release validation, production readiness activities, and lessons-learned reviews as needed. This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program. #LI-SS1 Job Description Summary We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, strong business savvy and contributing to a stellar team dynamic. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you! As a Consultant, you'll act independently or as a member of a team responsible for establishing a common understanding of the business environment in which a project must be defined, designed, created, deployed, used and supported. You will participate in major process modeling, analysis and design efforts providing business performance management, organizational design and business risk management capabilities to formulate pragmatic, forward facing and impactful business transformation plans. Job Description Key Responsibilities: Partners with senior leaders to transform their businesses through the strategic application of people, processes and technology. Participates in the planning process by identifying complexities, dependencies and duplications. Demonstrates expertise in leading business process analysis/design, organizational analysis, needs assessments and cost/benefit analysis to align solutions with business strategies and direction. Consults with functional groups within Nationwide Technology and internal business clients to develop short- and long-term business transformation plans. Serves as process management contributor and consultan