SAP Quality Engineering - Program Director

 About The Role  

The SAP Test director is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all testing activities for SAP programs. This includes managing testing strategy, resources, schedules, risks, reporting, and ensuring quality across all phases of the SAP lifecycle.

 Key Responsibilities: 

Define overall SAP test strategy and roadmap for the program. Experience in building test strategy for SAP ECC, S/4 HANA implementations & rollouts, large transformation programs like IT consolidation, merger/split/acquisitions etc.

Hands on experience for SAP Test delivery management aligned to SAP ASAP methodology, RTM aligned to BPML & required and ensuring E2E test coverage for process & data variants, customizations, localizations etc.

Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.

Strong in QA methodologies

Coordinate testing across SAP modules (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, etc.).

Own test governance, test reporting, defect triage and resolution process.

Collaborate with PMO, Functional Leads, Technical Leads, and Business SMEs, manage teams across geographies (onsite/offshore).

Monitor KPIs such as defect density, test coverage, defect leakage.

Test strategy, execution and delivery management for SAP Test automation using various tool like UFT, CBTA, SAP TAO, Worksoft Certify, Tricentis Tosca etc.

Test strategy, execution and delivery management for SAP Performance Testing using LR or any other suitable tool

CertificationSAP certification and/or QA certifications such as ISTQB are highly desirable.

 Our Ideal Candidate 

 Education Qualifications:  Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering

 Experience Minimum of 16 years of experience in quality assurance, with at least 8 years in a SAP Test Program management/ COE setup /solutioning

 Skills Required: 

Domain - Strong SAP functional knowledge (S/4HANA, ECC), module interdependencies

Leadership - Program governance, stakeholder management, risk mitigation

Tools - ALM, Solution Manager, Jira/Xray, TestRail, HP ALM/QC

Test Process - Waterfall & Agile testing, defect management, Test Automation lifecycle

Soft Skills - Negotiation, conflict resolution, executive reporting, decision-making