SAP Manager

SAP Greenfield Test Manager

Lisle, IL

Onsite

Full Time/Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing strategy for the SAP Greenfield implementation across all phases, from planning through hypercare.
• Define the overall test approach, scope, test levels, entry/exit criteria, and quality governance for the program.
• Develop and manage the master test plan covering SIT, E2E, UAT support, regression, cutover, and post-go-live validation.
• Coordinate testing across SAP modules, integrated systems, third-party applications, legacy remediation, data migration, reporting, and interfaces.
• Establish test management processes, standards, templates, and governance aligned with program and PMO expectations.
• Oversee test scenario, test case, and test script design to ensure full business process coverage and traceability to requirements.
• Manage test resource planning, task allocation, offshore/onshore coordination, and tester productivity across workstreams.
• Drive defect management by setting triage processes, prioritization rules, escalation paths, and closure governance.
• Ensure test environment readiness, test data availability, and coordination with functional, technical, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Monitor progress of test design, execution, defect resolution, automation, and reporting against milestones.
• Provide regular status updates, dashboards, risk reports, and executive summaries to program leadership and steering committees.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, and quality gaps early, and drive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Partner with business leads, SAP functional teams, system integrators, and vendors to ensure aligned testing outcomes.
• Govern test tool usage such as qTest, SAP ALM, Tosca, or other approved tools for planning, execution, defect tracking, and traceability.
• Oversee automation strategy for regression and repeatable business-critical scenarios where applicable.
• Validate readiness for each test phase and provide signoff recommendations based on agreed quality criteria.
• Support business users during UAT by coordinating defect resolution, clarifications, retesting, and status communication.
• Ensure cutover testing, mock conversions, production validation, and hypercare defect tracking are completed successfully.
• Drive lessons learned, continuous improvement, and test process optimization throughout the program lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with audit, control, security, and regulatory requirements relevant to SAP implementation testing.

Additional Leadership Expectations

• Act as the single point of accountability for program-level testing.
• Build strong collaboration across business, IT, SI partners, and leadership teams.
• Maintain focus on quality, schedule adherence, risk reduction, and business readiness for go-live.