Lead IT Analyst - S4 Test Program Manager

YOU MUST HAVE:

Key Experience required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Master's
• 15+ years of strong experience in large program test management involving multiple senior stakeholders and suppliers.
• Exposure to SAP Testing including S4 HANA transformation programs.
• Experience in driving continuous Test Automation preferably using TOSCA and TOSCA DI.
• Experience in developing and implementing large transformation test strategies and with high focus on continuous test automation.
• Experience working in SAFe Agile methodology with high focus on continuous test automation (in sprint, SIT, Regression & UAT) including deeper knowledge of JIRA- Xray and TOSCA integration.
• Proven thought leadership in driving continuous improvements, cost optimization and productivity improvements.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and escalation management.
• Proven leadership skills in managing multiple vendors testing delivery in a multi-country environment.
• Diverse experience in multi-technology platforms testing to be able to provide functional test signoff and coordinate automation & and nonfunctional testing.
• Working knowledge of complex integration landscape comprising the front end, middleware, and backend.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and escalation management.
• Good analytical and logical thinking abilities
• Experience in test estimation, resource planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, and reporting test status.

S4 Test Program Manager - Key Responsibilities

Own and drive implementation of S4 test strategy and track the execution progress across SIT, E2E, UAT, Regression, Data Migration, Interfaces, Security & Performance testing including reporting to the program stakeholders.

• Coordinate testing across multiple release trains at the program level
• Collaborate with SI partners, business SMEs, functional COE, technical COE, integration COE, security COE and Data COE teams.
• Ensure environment readiness, test data readiness and integration coverage across all workstreams.
• Participate in scrum of scrums and highlight testing related risks, issues and dependencies and track them to closure proactively.
• Present program-level status, risks, dependencies, and mitigations to PMO and leadership forums.
• Drive continuous improvements and quality gate compliance with program standards.

ISC (Inventory, Logistics, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement)

RTR (Finance & Controlling)

OTC (Sales, Billing, Customer Operations).

• Collaborate with SI partners, business SMEs, functional COE, technical COE, integration COE, security COE and Data COE teams.
• Ensure environment readiness, test data readiness and integration coverage across all workstreams.
• Participate in scrum of scrums and highlight testing related risks, issues and dependencies and track them to closure proactively.
• Present program-level status, risks, dependencies, and mitigations to PMO and leadership forums.
• Drive continuous improvements and quality gate compliance with program standards.