Lead Quality Engineer

Trident Consulting is seeking an "UAT/QE Lead" for one of our client. A global leader in business and technology services.

Job Title: UAT/QE Lead

Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid)

Bill Rate: $58/hr on W2

Job Description:

Years of Experience: 10+ Years of Experience

Job Description/ Responsibilities/ Years of experience:

• 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

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

1. Commercial Real Estate Domain

2. UAT coordination

3. Data Testing

About Trident Consulting: Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we have partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.