- Role : Sr. Anaplan Consultant
- Location : Seattle, WA (Remote)
- Position type : Contract
Mandatory Skills : Anaplan, ALM, FP&A, Required Model Builder Certificate Level 3/Solution Architect
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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