Role Summary
The Senior SAP S/4HANA Test Automation Engineer / Lead establishes and executes the automation strategy for complex SAP business processes, translating business risk and release scope into maintainable, reusable automated regression coverage.
Hands-on Tricentis Tosca and Zephyr or Zephyr Scale experience are mandatory.
Experience with other automation platforms and strong SAP S/4HANA functional expertise are welcome additions, not substitutes for the required tools.
The role retains senior-level technical leadership and delivery ownership.
Primary Responsibilities
Test Strategy and Planning
Develop the SAP S/4HANA test automation strategy, roadmap, standards, and release approach.
Assess requirements and business processes for testability, risk, automation suitability, and coverage priority.
Define estimates, staffing assumptions, milestones, entry/exit criteria, and automation completion criteria.
Establish requirements-to-test-to-defect traceability and quality reporting.
Automation Engineering
Design Tosca automation architecture, reusable modules, libraries, templates, and naming conventions.
Develop complex end-to-end tests spanning SAP GUI, Fiori, interfaces, APIs, and cross-module business processes.
Define reusable test data, parameterization, recovery, synchronization, and environment-handling patterns.
Troubleshoot difficult SAP/Tosca execution failures and review automation developed by other engineers.
Execution, Defects, and Leadership
Coordinate smoke, functional, integration, and regression cycles; distinguish application defects from automation, data, environment, and configuration issues.
Lead defect triage, fix validation, execution reporting, release-readiness discussions, and Zephyr governance for suites, cycles, evidence, traceability, and dashboards.
Mentor Mid and Junior engineers, conduct peer reviews, and manage automation technical debt and the maintenance backlog.
Common Required Qualifications and Additional Experience
U.
S. citizenship is required.
Resource must work physically from within the United States for the duration of the engagement.
SAP S/4HANA testing experience is required.
Candidates must also bring direct experience with a major test automation platform OR direct experience with two or more SAP modules.
Hands-on Tosca and Zephyr or Zephyr Scale experience are mandatory regardless of qualification path.
Required: hands-on Tricentis Tosca experience, including automated test development, execution, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Additional experience with other automation tools, such as Eggplant or Selenium, is welcome but does not replace the Tosca requirement.
Required: experience using Zephyr or Zephyr Scale for test planning, test-cycle management, execution tracking, traceability, evidence, and reporting.
Understanding of functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and defect-retest practices.
Ability to collaborate with SAP functional SMEs, business analysts, developers, product owners, program leadership, and other QA resources.