Test Manager
Posted 3 days ago by Totaljobs
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Summary: The Test Manager for SAP S4HANA and Enterprise Platforms will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive testing strategy for complex programs. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, ensuring quality standards, and managing the entire defect lifecycle while aligning with internal stakeholders and vendors. The position requires a focus on risk-based testing across various phases, including integration and operational readiness. The successful candidate will drive continuous improvement and ensure compliance with audit requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement a risk-based test strategy across SIT, E2E, regression, UAT, and OAT.
- Build and maintain test plans, schedules, environment approach, entry and exit criteria, and quality gates.
- Lead test execution across multiple workstreams and suppliers, ensuring alignment to programme milestones and release plans.
- Own the defect lifecycle, including triage, severity, prioritisation, root cause coordination, and fix cadence with engineering and vendors.
- Ensure full traceability across requirements, test cases, evidence, and outcomes, meeting audit and compliance needs.
- Establish testing governance including reporting cadence, quality dashboards, RAID management, and decision logs.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, process optimisation, and tooling uplift.
- Support test automation initiatives where suitable to accelerate regression and reduce manual effort.
- Validate non-functional requirements where required, including security, performance, usability, and accessibility.
- Coordinate go-live readiness including cutover support, hypercare testing, and operational handover packs.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience leading testing on complex, large-scale programmes with multiple workstreams and dependencies.
- Strong leadership and the ability to coordinate onshore, offshore, and vendor delivery models.
- Excellent stakeholder management, able to influence senior leaders and remove blockers quickly.
- Strong problem solving with a practical technical understanding of platform landscapes and integration points.
- Experience in regulated environments, delivering audit-ready evidence and measurable quality outcomes.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
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Country: UK
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TEST MANAGER – SAP S4HANA AND ENTERPRISE PLATFORMS
Role purpose
You will own the end-to-end testing strategy and delivery for a major programme or complex platform landscape. You will set standards, drive governance, and ensure quality is measurable, transparent, and audit-ready. You will lead cross-functional test teams and align internal SMEs, vendors, and delivery leadership to deliver risk-based testing across integration, system, regression, UAT, and operational readiness phases.
Key responsibilities
- Define and implement a risk-based test strategy across SIT, E2E, regression, UAT, and OAT.
- Build and maintain test plans, schedules, environment approach, entry and exit criteria, and quality gates.
- Lead test execution across multiple workstreams and suppliers, ensuring alignment to programme milestones and release plans.
- Own the defect lifecycle, including triage, severity, prioritisation, root cause coordination, and fix cadence with engineering and vendors.
- Ensure full traceability across requirements, test cases, evidence, and outcomes, meeting audit and compliance needs.
- Establish testing governance including reporting cadence, quality dashboards, RAID management, and decision logs.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, process optimisation, and tooling uplift.
- Support test automation initiatives where suitable to accelerate regression and reduce manual effort.
- Validate non-functional requirements where required, including security, performance, usability, and accessibility.
- Coordinate go-live readiness including cutover support, hypercare testing, and operational handover packs.
Domain focus options
Depending on the programme, you may focus on one or more of the following:
- SAP S/4HANA transformation • Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) • Procurement (Ariba, MM, SRM) • HCM • SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) • Integration testing across SAP and downstream systems
- Enterprise platforms • ServiceNow platform testing • Third-party and supplier-delivered solutions requiring strong governance, standards, and tooling consistency
- Insurance, London Markets • London Market systems and EDI message processing • Lloyd’s and syndicate processes, bureau applications, Blueprint-aligned change • Strong QE frameworks, guardrails, and alignment to enterprise testing strategy
Tools and delivery methods
- Test management and ALM tools such as cALM and Jira (and similar)
- Automation tooling such as Tricentis Tosca where applicable
- Comfortable operating across Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall delivery models
- Strong reporting discipline and confident senior stakeholder communication
Skills and experience
- Proven experience leading testing on complex, large-scale programmes with multiple workstreams and dependencies
- Strong leadership and the ability to coordinate onshore, offshore, and vendor delivery models
- Excellent stakeholder management, able to influence senior leaders and remove blockers quickly
- Strong problem solving with a practical technical understanding of platform landscapes and integration points
- Experience in regulated environments, delivering audit-ready evidence and measurable quality outcomes
What success looks like
- Clear, risk-based testing strategy with visible governance and effective quality gates
- Predictable delivery aligned to milestones, with controlled defect management and transparent reporting
- Audit-ready traceability and evidence across requirements, test execution, and outcomes
- Smooth go-live readiness, stable hypercare, and a clean handover into BAU operations