SAP Test Manager

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

3d•$80,400 - $266,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Accenture is seeking an experienced SAP testing leader to join their team. This role is crucial for managing large-scale SAP transformation programs, ensuring the delivery of high-quality SAP S/4HANA solutions and readiness for critical program milestones and go-live. The ideal candidate is a hands-on delivery leader who can align various teams around an integrated testing strategy, drive test readiness and execution, manage defects and dependencies, identify risks, and ensure timely issue resolution. The role also involves utilizing data and analytics to track progress, identify gaps, and implement recovery actions. Continuous improvement through automation, GenAI, and AI-enabled testing is encouraged to enhance quality, efficiency, and predictability. A passion for delivering quality and ensuring testing provides confidence in SAP solution readiness is essential.

Requirements

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)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Test automation

Responsibilities

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.