SAP Test Manager
Experience: 10+ Years
Employment Type: Contract
Work Model: Remote
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced SAP Test Manager with 10+ years of experience in software testing and strong expertise in managing end-to-end testing for large-scale SAP implementations, S/4HANA transformations, upgrades, migrations, and support programs.
The Test Manager will be responsible for defining the overall testing strategy, managing testing teams, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, overseeing test execution, defect management, reporting, and ensuring successful completion of SIT, E2E, regression, UAT, and deployment/cutover testing.
The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of SAP business processes, SAP S/4HANA, integration points, test management methodologies, and testing tools such as Tricentis Tosca, SAP Solution Manager, Jira, ALM/qTest, or similar platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall SAP testing strategy, test approach, and test plan for implementation, upgrade, migration, and transformation programs.
- Lead end-to-end testing activities across SIT, System Testing, E2E, Regression, UAT, and Production Validation.
- Manage testing teams across multiple SAP functional areas such as SAP FICO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, HCM/SuccessFactors, Ariba, and other integrated applications.
- Develop and review test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, and requirements traceability.
- Coordinate testing activities across SAP, legacy systems, third-party applications, interfaces, middleware, and external systems.
- Manage test execution, daily status tracking, testing metrics, risks, dependencies, and overall test progress.
- Lead defect triage meetings, prioritize defects, assign ownership, and drive defects through resolution and closure.
- Coordinate with SAP functional leads, developers, business analysts, project managers, technical teams, business users, and external vendors.
- Manage test environments and test data in coordination with technical and Basis teams.
- Define testing entry/exit criteria and provide testing readiness and quality assessments.
- Prepare and present testing status reports, dashboards, KPIs, risks, issues, and executive-level updates.
- Lead UAT planning and coordinate with business stakeholders to ensure business process coverage.
- Support cutover, mock conversion, go-live, and hypercare testing activities.
- Ensure appropriate testing coverage for SAP integrations, custom developments, interfaces, reports, workflows, and data migration.
- Establish testing governance, standards, templates, processes, and quality controls.
- Identify opportunities for test automation and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and provide direction to SAP test leads, testers, and offshore/onshore testing teams.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall experience in software/QA testing.
- Strong experience in SAP testing and test management for large-scale SAP programs.
- Hands-on experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience managing complete testing lifecycles including:
- SIT
- E2E Testing
- UAT
- Regression Testing
- Integration Testing
- Performance Testing
- Production Validation
- Experience managing testing for at least one major SAP implementation, transformation, migration, or upgrade.
- Strong understanding of SAP business processes and cross-module integration.
- Experience coordinating testing across multiple SAP modules and non-SAP applications.
- Strong experience with test planning, test execution, defect management, metrics, and reporting.
- Experience leading distributed/onshore-offshore testing teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
Test Management Tools
Experience with one or more of the following:
- Tricentis Tosca
- SAP Solution Manager / SolMan
- Jira
- HP ALM / Micro Focus ALM
- qTest
- Azure DevOps
- Zephyr
- Worksoft
- SAP Test Automation Tool / SAP TAO
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation or migration programs.
- Experience with SAP Activate methodology.
- Experience with SAP data migration and mock conversion testing.
- Knowledge of SAP interfaces, APIs, middleware, and integration testing.
- Experience with test automation strategy and implementation.
- Experience managing testing vendors / third-party testing partners.
- Experience in large global SAP programs with distributed teams.
- ISTQB / Certified Test Manager certification is a plus.
- SAP S/4HANA certification is a plus.
- Agile / Scrum / SAFe certification is a plus.
Key Skills
SAP Test Manager, SAP Testing, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Test Strategy, Test Planning, SIT, E2E Testing, UAT, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Defect Management, Test Automation, Tricentis Tosca, SAP Solution Manager, Jira, HP ALM, qTest, Azure DevOps, SAP Migration, SAP Implementation, Cutover Testing, Mock Conversion, Data Migration, SAP FICO, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP EWM, Stakeholder Management, Test Governance, QA Management
Best Regards,
Rakesh Sharma
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