Software Release Readiness & UAT Specialist

Software Release Readiness & UAT Specialist at Boeing summary:

The role is a hands-on release readiness and UAT specialist on an Agile/SAFe product team responsible for maintaining PACE documentation, designing and executing acceptance and regression test suites, coordinating red-lines to BPIs/LWIs, and delivering release training. The specialist partners with Product Owners and developers to define acceptance criteria, participate in PI/iteration planning, report progress and risks, and drive continuous process improvement and SAFe adoption.

The position requires a technical bachelor's degree, strong documentation and testing experience, onsite work in Everett, WA, and U.S. Person export-control eligibility.

Job Description

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We are seeking a Software Release Readiness & UAT Specialist to be a part of the PACE Agile team in Everett, Washington . The role required deep familiarity with customer engineering processes and tools along with familiarity with agile software development practices. This role will manage PACE documentation, training materials, and the test suite rigor; coordinate red-lines to BPIs and LWIs;

conduct UAT regression and enhancement testing; and deliver release training. This person will also embody a Lean-Agile mindset and support SAFe adoption and Boeing practices.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to create and refine user stories and define clear acceptance criteria.
• Participate in PI Planning; contribute to iteration plans and team PI objectives.
• Develop and commit to team PI objectives and iteration goals.
• Ensure development outputs and acceptance tests reflect desired functionality; write documentation to request coding/recoding as needed.
• Manage and maintain PACE documentation, including updates to the PACE user guide and red-lining BPIs and LWIs in coordination with document owners.
• Conduct research, design, prototyping, and other exploration activities to de-risk features and validate approaches.
• Work with developers to ensure high-quality builds and component solutions.
• Create, maintain, and vet acceptance test cases in collaboration with PACE/IT; own quarterly UAT regression and enhancement testing in collaboration with your Product Owner.
• Plan and deliver release training for end users and stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of team processes.
• Communicate and coordinate completion of delivery goals with management and report progress against deadlines.
• Identify and administrate new risk items for the Customer Engineering (CE) team and collaborate with impacted parties to mitigate and resolve risks.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work on-site at one of the listed location options.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• Familiarity with agile software development practices; experience working in SAFe environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong documentation skills — experience authoring and maintaining user guides, BPIs, and LWIs.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and executing acceptance and regression test suites (UAT experience preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Owners, developers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills; ability to present status and risks to management.
• Ability to drive continuous process improvement and act as an agile coach/champion within the team and org.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience with customer engineering processes and tools.
• Prior experience with PACE or configurator.
• Hands-on experience with test management tools and automation frameworks.
• Experience participating in PI planning, iteration…