SAP S/4HANA Automation Test Manager

Job Description

Your responsibilities

Test planning and governance

• Apply and continuously improve the LUCA end-to-end test strategy across assigned releases and rollout waves, covering unit support, system integration, end-to-end, regression, user acceptance and cutover-related validation.
• Develop integrated test plans that define scope, cycles, milestones, entry and exit criteria, environments, test data, responsibilities, dependencies and required evidence.
• Establish and operate consistent quality gates, governance routines, escalation paths, status reporting and readiness assessments in alignment with the overall LUCA Test Management team.
• Maintain transparent traceability from business requirements and process designs to test cases, executions, defects and acceptance evidence.
• Coordinate testing dependencies across LUCA process streams, SAP and non-SAP partner systems, migration activities, environments, interfaces and country organisations.

Test design, execution and defect management

• Work with Process Leads, Process Owners, solution architects, country teams and implementation partners to translate SAP Finance and SAP Ariba requirements into robust, prioritised end-to-end test scenarios.
• Challenge test scope and coverage from a business-process, control, integration and data perspective, ensuring that critical and high-risk scenarios are adequately represented.
• Coordinate test preparation and execution across distributed teams, including tester onboarding, script readiness, test-data availability, environment readiness, daily progress monitoring and evidence quality.
• Lead defect-management routines, ensure complete and consistent defect documentation, facilitate triage and prioritisation, and drive critical issues to timely resolution and retest.
• Provide concise reporting on execution progress, coverage, defect trends, blockers, residual risks and recommendations for test completion and go-live readiness.

System Integrator delivery management

• Define, agree and govern the SI test deliverables, responsibilities, milestones, quality expectations and acceptance criteria for each test phase and rollout wave.
• Hold the SI accountable for timely and complete preparation of test plans, test scenarios, scripts, test data requirements, execution evidence, defect analysis, status reporting and closure documentation within its scope.
• Review and challenge SI estimates, resource plans, test coverage and execution progress, ensuring that delivery commitments are realistic, transparent and aligned with LUCA milestones.
• Operate regular SI performance and delivery reviews focused on agreed outcomes, overdue actions, blockers, defect ageing, retest readiness and remediation plans.
• Ensure that SI-led testing is coordinated with METRO business teams, LUCA functional and technical teams, partner-system owners and country organisations, with clear handovers and no gaps in accountability.
• Escalate material SI delivery risks early, supported by evidence and a clear assessment of their impact on quality gates, UAT readiness and go-live decisions.

User Acceptance Testing management

• Own the end-to-end planning and management of the UAT exercise for assigned LUCA rollout waves, in close alignment with the overall LUCA Test Management team and country business leadership.
• Define the UAT scope, approach, schedule, entry and exit criteria, business-process coverage, tester organisation, environments, roles, authorisations, test data, evidence standards and sign-off process.
• Coordinate the nomination, onboarding and readiness of business testers and key users, ensuring that responsibilities, availability, scripts, data, tools and escalation channels are understood before execution starts.
• Ensure the SI and LUCA teams provide a stable, sufficiently tested solution for UAT, including completed prerequisite testing, resolved blocking defects, available interfaces and documented known limitations.
• Lead UAT execution governance through daily progress reviews, issue triage, defect prioritisation, retest coordination, coverage monitoring and transparent reporting to programme and country stakeholders.
• Drive formal UAT completion and business acceptance by consolidating results, open defects, workarounds, residual risks and sign-off evidence, without substituting for the accountable business approvers.

Tools and test automation

• Use Zephyr within the agreed Jira-based testing approach to support structured test-case management, test cycles, execution tracking, traceability, reporting and audit evidence.
• Help establish reusable test assets and consistent naming, status and evidence standards across LUCA rollout waves.
• Contribute to the LUCA test-automation strategy and identify suitable regression and end-to-end scenarios for automation based on risk, repeatability, stability and business value.
• Coordinate UiPath-based SAP test-automation activities with functional teams and automation specialists, including prioritisation, test-data needs, execution scheduling, result review and maintenance requirements.
• Promote the reuse of automated tests across SAP GUI, SAP Fiori and connected business processes where this is supported by the agreed LUCA toolchain.

Stakeholder and delivery management

• Coordinate virtual and cross-functional testing teams across, LUCA central teams, country organisations and implementation partners.
• Facilitate test-planning, execution, defect and readiness forums with a clear focus on decisions, ownership, delivery commitments and unresolved risks.
• Escalate quality risks early and communicate their business, process, technology and schedule impacts to the appropriate programme stakeholders.
• Support business readiness and UAT by ensuring that testers understand their responsibilities, scripts, test data, evidence expectations and issue-reporting process.
• Capture lessons learned and improve test methods, templates, reporting and automation practices across successive rollout waves.

Qualifications

Experience and knowledge

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in SAP testing or quality management, including substantial responsibility as a Test Manager in complex multinational SAP transformation programmes.
• Practical experience across the full testing lifecycle and with waterfall, agile or hybrid delivery approaches.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Finance processes and integration points, with the ability to evaluate end-to-end scenarios across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling and connected systems.
• Good knowledge of SAP Ariba and procurement-to-pay integration, including the ability to understand business scenarios spanning procurement, invoicing and Finance.
• Experience testing interface-heavy landscapes, data migration, cross-system business processes and third-party applications.
• Hands-on knowledge of Jira and Zephyr, including test-case organisation, execution tracking, traceability and reporting.
• Knowledge of UiPath for SAP test automation is highly advantageous, particularly for regression testing and connected end-to-end processes.
• Proven experience managing System Integrator test-delivery commitments and coordinating internal teams, business testers and implementation vendors across geographies without relying solely on direct authority.
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading large-scale UAT exercises, including business-tester mobilisation, readiness management, daily execution governance, defect triage, acceptance evidence and sign-off coordination.
• SAP, ISTQB, test-management or UiPath certification is advantageous but not required; retail-industry experience is beneficial.

Ways of working

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