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You are an experienced SAP testing leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale SAP transformation programs. You bring structure, discipline, and execution rigor to testing, helping organizations deliver high-quality SAP S/4HANA solutions and achieve readiness for critical program milestones and go-live.
You are a hands-on delivery leader capable of aligning business, functional, technical, data, integration, and deployment teams around an integrated testing strategy and plan. You excel at driving test readiness and execution, managing defects and dependencies,
identifying
risks, and ensuring issues are resolved before they
impact
downstream milestones.
You use data and analytics to understand where testing is against plan, what is driving gaps, and what actions are
required
to recover. You continuously seek better ways of working,
leveraging
automation, GenAI, and AI-enabled testing capabilities to improve quality, efficiency, and predictability.
Above all, you
are passionate about delivering quality and ensuring testing provides confidence that SAP solutions are ready for the business.
The Work:
Lead end-to-end testing delivery across SAP transformation programs, including functional testing, SIT, regression, UAT, integration, and production readiness testing.
Develop and manage integrated test plans, schedules, test cycles, entry/exit criteria, dependencies, resources, and execution milestones.
Coordinate testing across business, functional, technical, RICEFW, data migration, integration, security, environment, and deployment teams.
Drive test readiness by ensuring test scenarios, test data, environments, integrations, resources, and business testers are prepared for execution.
Manage testing against plan and identify execution gaps, blockers, dependencies, capacity constraints, and recovery actions.
Lead defect management and triage, including severity, prioritization, ownership, aging, resolution, retesting, closure, and escalation.
Develop testing dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility into planned versus actual execution, pass/fail rates, defect trends, risks, and forecasted completion.
Facilitate testing governance and drive actions, decisions, risks, and issues through closure.
Partner with functional, technical, data, business, and deployment teams to resolve testing issues and maintain execution momentum.
Support testing exit assessments and provide objective evidence of readiness against established quality gates and acceptance criteria.
Lead onshore and offshore testing resources and establish consistent ways of working across teams.
Leverage AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to improve test creation, execution, regression coverage, defect analysis, and reporting.
Contribute to Delivery Excellence testing assets, accelerators, methodologies, and leading practices.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 50% depending on business need and client requirements
Here's what you need:
Minimum of 7 years of SAP testing, quality engineering, delivery, or transformation experience.
Proven experience leading testing activities within SAP S/4HANA implementations or other complex SAP programs.
Experience leading SIT, regression, UAT, defect management, and testing readiness activities.
Strong understanding of SAP business processes, RICEFW, integrations, data migration, environments, and cross-functional testing dependencies.
Experience coordinating global, cross-functional, and onshore/offshore delivery teams.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)
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