SAP Testing and Automation Lead, Ford Energy

Ford Motor•Dearborn, MI

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Testing & Automation Engineer, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, will be the quality and automation backbone of Ford Energy’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud environment. This is a critical, hands-on individual-contributor role responsible for building and maintaining the automated testing framework that gives the organization the flexibility to move fast without breaking things. The role involves designing and executing test automation strategy using Tricentis Tosca, ensuring every release meets a high bar for quality, and managing the regression and validation testing required to keep Ford Energy current through frequent S/4HANA Public Cloud upgrade cycles. This position is foundational to enabling a lean, high-velocity SAP organization that can adopt new capability quickly and confidently.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
5–8 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or test automation, with meaningful experience testing SAP environments (commensurate with GSR 8 level).
Hands-on, production experience designing and maintaining automated test scripts using Tricentis Tosca.
Strong understanding of SAP business processes and the ability to translate functional requirements into effective test scenarios.
SAP CALM Experience / Understanding how to utilize SAP CALM's project tracking capabilities to manage the testing phases of S/4HANA Public Cloud's strict semi-annual upgrades and continuous feature deployments.
Experience planning and executing regression testing for system upgrades, patches, or major releases.
Strong defect management and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to prioritize based on business risk.
Ability to clearly communicate test results, risks, and quality recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience testing or supporting SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, including familiarity with its standardized upgrade cadence and "clean core" extensibility model.
Practical knowledge of linking Tosca and SAP Cloud ALM via APIs, including managing client IDs, secret tokens, and landscape endpoints—to ensure seamless, bi-directional data flow.
Familiarity with additional test automation or CI/CD tooling beyond Tosca.
Experience testing integrations between SAP and third-party or custom applications.
Comfort building test processes and standards from scratch within a larger corporate parent.
Familiarity with manufacturing, energy, or other complex operational environments.

Responsibilities

Own the design, build, and continuous improvement of the automated testing framework across Ford Energy’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud landscape.
Design, script, and maintain automated test suites using Tricentis Tosca for core business processes, integrations, and configuration changes.
Continuously identify and close gaps in automated regression coverage as new processes, integrations, and modules are onboarded.
Keep the test automation framework current with SAP’s object model and public cloud release changes so tests remain reliable and low-maintenance.
Serve as the quality gatekeeper for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud releases, ensuring changes and upgrades are validated before they reach production.
Define and execute test plans for quarterly SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud upgrades, patches, and feature releases.
Coordinate regression testing across impacted business processes for each public cloud release, minimizing disruption and downtime.
Provide clear, data-backed go/no-go recommendations to leadership based on test results and defect severity.
Track, triage, and drive resolution of defects identified during testing cycles in partnership with functional and technical teams.
Establish the testing standards, metrics, and best practices that make quality a repeatable, scalable discipline rather than a one-off event.
Establish test case design, coverage, and documentation standards for the SAP organization.
Maintain dashboards and metrics on test coverage, pass/fail rates, and defect trends to give leadership visibility into release health.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing effort and cycle time through smarter automation and reusable test assets.
Partner across the SAP delivery team and business stakeholders to ensure testing keeps pace with the speed of change.
Work with SAP functional and technical teams to understand change scope and translate it into test scenarios.
Enable and guide business users through user acceptance testing (UAT) as needed.
Coordinate testing activities with system integrator or managed services partners supporting the SAP landscape.

Benefits

performance-based bonuses
Ford vehicle discounts
Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.