Job description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Techno-Functional Consultant with strong expertise in Anaplan. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on technical Model building and testing skills with a deep understanding of enterprise business planning, data flows, integration touchpoints, and end-to-end validation across planning models and enterprise data platforms.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Anaplan Functional & Technical Validation
· Review business user requirements and user stories to create comprehensive test scenarios.
· Validate Anaplan modules, lists, hierarchies, actions, and processes.
· Test model-to-model, model-to-data hub, model-to-target system integrations (Anaplan Connect, APIs, Airflow, etc.).
· Perform regression, UAT, and performance testing on planning cycles and connected planning workflows.
· Lead end-to-end QA strategy for user stories.
· Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, test execution reports, and defect management.
· Work closely with product owners, planners, data engineers, and developers to ensure high-quality releases.
· Drive quality reviews, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvements.
Preferred
· Test REST APIs, microservices, and integration layers connected to Anaplan or downstream systems.
· Conduct schema checks, data integrity validation, reconciliation, and lineage verification.
· Validate data ingestion, transformation, and processing across ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Databricks etc).
Required Skills & Competencies
Functional Skills
· Strong understanding of planning processes: FP&A / supply chain planning / workforce planning / sales planning, or related domains.
· Ability to translate business rules into test cases and validate model behavior.
Technical Skills (Mandatory)
· Anaplan: model structures, formulas, actions/processes, imports/exports, ALM, UX testing.
· QA: functional and technical testing, APIs, data ingestions, scheduled jobs etc
· Anaplan (Model Builder L3 and above)
Tools (preferred)
· Jira, AWS, ALM, GitHub, Sharepoint, Teams
· Snowflakes/Azure/AWS certification
· Python, PyTest, Postman, Selenium
· Knowledge of data quality frameworks
· Exposure to analytics platforms (Power BI/Tableau)
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Education:
· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Commerce, Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related fields.
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