SAP Functional Quality Test Lead

We are seeking an experienced SAP Functional Quality Test Lead to join our Digital Core SAP CoE as a hands‑on Quality Gatekeeper. This is a senior individual contributor role for a subject‑matter expert who combines deep functional SAP domain knowledge with a strong quality engineering mindset. You will be embedded within a product team, owning quality assurance end‑to‑end for your functional domain across the full release cycle — from SIT design through UAT sign‑off and post‑release validation. You will work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and Business Process stakeholders. You are expected to challenge, advise, and assure — not simply execute. Self‑driven and highly organised, you thrive operating with autonomy in a complex, multi‑track SAP landscape.

How you'll make an impact:

• Serve as the Quality Gatekeeper for all Change Requests in your functional domain owning test readiness sign‑off at both SIT and UAT.
• Engage with Solution Architects during the SIT design and SID review phase to ensure testability is embedded in functional designs from the outset.
• Develop end‑to‑end SIT scenarios, own test script creation, review, and traceability, and ensure complete coverage of business process scenarios, including negative cases.
• Lead UAT planning and execution: define scope, build test schedules, onboard business testers, manage UAT defect triage, and own the UAT sign‑off pack.
• Perform hands‑on data preparation across SAP test landscapes, including master data, transactional data, and configuration prerequisites, ensuring test data readiness before every test cycle.
• Own defect lifecycle management: log, triage, classify, assign, track re‑test, and close defects in Azure DevOps; elevate cross‑functional blockers promptly.
• Review functional designs and BRS documents at entry gates, raise quality risks early, and prevent defect leakage to production.
• Produce domain‑level quality dashboards, weekly status reports, and post‑release feedback analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement: identify systemic quality gaps, propose process enhancements, and build quality capability within business and project testing communities.
• Work autonomously to manage competing priorities across parallel release tracks, escalating risks proactively to the Quality Lead.

Background:

Proven years of progressive SAP functional testing experience across at least two full project lifecycles (greenfield or brownfield S/4HANA implementations preferred). Proven domain expertise in one or more SAP functional modules — such as Finance (FI/CO), Sales.