SAP Test Director

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Governance
• Define and own the overall SAP test strategy, approach, and roadmap across the program lifecycle.
• Establish test governance frameworks, standards, entry/exit criteria, defect management, and quality metrics.
• Ensure testing aligns with SAP Activate, enterprise SDLC, and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Provide executive-level reporting on test progress, quality risks, and release readiness.
• End-to-End SAP Testing Leadership

Lead testing across all phases, including

• Unit & Functional Testing
• System Integration Testing (SIT)
• End-to-End Process Testing
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Regression Testing
• Cutover & Production Readiness Testing
• Ensure end-to-end business process validation across SAP modules and integrated systems.
• Validate data migration, interfaces, security roles, workflows, and reporting as part of integrated testing.
• SAP S/4HANA Program Delivery
• Provide testing leadership for:
• Greenfield, brownfield, or hybrid S/4HANA programs o ECC to S/4HANA conversions and selective data transitions
• Ensure fit-to-standard testing approaches with appropriate coverage for SAP best practices.
• Coordinate testing across SAP core, SAP BTP, and non-SAP systems.
• UAT & Business Engagement
• Own and drive UAT planning and execution, ensuring business readiness and acceptance.
• Work with business SMEs to:
• Define test scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Prepare test data and environments
• Manage UAT execution and defect triage
• Ensure UAT outcomes support go/no-go decisions.
• Defect & Quality Management
• Establish defect management processes, severity models, and resolution SLAs.
• Lead defect triage forums with functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Ensure root cause analysis is performed for critical and recurring defects.
• Drive quality improvements and prevent defect leakage into production.
• Test Automation & Tooling
• Define the test automation strategy for SAP (where applicable).
• Oversee use of SAP and third-party tools such as: o SAP Solution Manager / Cloud ALM o Test automation tools (e.g. Tricentis, Worksoft, similar)
• Balance manual vs automated testing based on risk, value, and program maturity.
• Environment, Data & Release Readiness
• Coordinate test environment planning, refresh cycles, and data availability.
• Ensure test data supports realistic business scenarios and compliance needs.

Lead production readiness assessments, including

• Open defect position
• Regression coverage
• Business sign-off
• Cutover rehearsal outcomes ________________________________________ Required

Core Experience

• 15+ years of testing experience with 5+ years in Test Director level.
• Extensive experience leading testing for large SAP programs, ideally SAP S/4HANA.
• Proven experience managing testing across multiple workstreams, vendors, and geographies. SAP Knowledge

Strong understanding of SAP landscapes, including

• o SAP S/4HANA (Finance and/or Logistics) o SAP ECC (legacy environments) o SAP Fiori, security roles, and authorisations

End-to-end process knowledge across key SAP streams

• Finance (RTR)
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
• Order-to-Cash (O2C)
• Plan-to-Produce (as applicable) Integration & Data Testing

Experience testing

• o SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integrations
• Interfaces (APIs, IDocs, middleware)
• Data migration and reconciliation
• Understanding of reporting and analytics validation. ________________________________________ Leadership & Stakeholder Skills
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence senior business and IT leaders on quality and risk decisions.
• Calm, structured approach to managing high-pressure go-live timelines.
• Proven capability to lead large, multi-vendor test teams. ________________________________________ Qualifications (Preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.

Certifications (desirable)

• o ISTQB (Advanced / Test Manager) o SAP S/4HANA (any module) o SAP Activate or Agile/SAFe certifications </div