SAP Senior Test Manager in Leeds

As a Senior Test Manager, you will spearhead high-impact S/4HANA transformations, leading the end-to-end testing strategy, governance, and delivery across complex programmes and multiple workstreams. You will ensure quality and innovation across large-scale, diverse landscapes while providing strong leadership to testing teams, managing stakeholders at all levels, and driving continuous improvement in testing processes, tooling, and automation.

Experience in system development life cycle methodologies, implementing QE metrics delivering efficiency, automation, and quality improvements is essential. You will lead the end-to-end SAP testing strategy across S/4HANA transformations, upgrades, and complex multi-module deployments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining SAP specific test governance, quality frameworks, and best practice methodologies aligned to SAP Activate and programme delivery models.
• Overseeing planning and execution of all SAP test phases, including SIT, UAT, Regression, E2E, Pair Testing, Integrations, Data Migration Testing, and Non-Functional Testing.
• Managing cross-functional SAP testing teams covering modules such as FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, SuccessFactors, Ariba, BW/BI, BTP and third-party integrations.
• Coordinating testing across multiple streams including functional, technical, security, interfaces (IDocs, APIs), and middleware platforms (e.g., PI/PO, CPI).
• Ensuring SAP test readiness, including environments, transports, cutover testing plans, data availability, and solution stability.
• Overseeing SAP test automation strategy using tools such as Tricentis Tosca, CBTA, Worksoft, or similar frameworks.
• Driving continuous improvement in SAP test practices, automation adoption, reporting, and reusable test accelerators.
• Collaborating with programme leadership, SAP architects, data migration teams, and business SMEs to align test scope, integration flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring adherence to SAP regulatory, compliance, audit, and security standards (e.g. SoX, GDPR, GRC, role testing).
• Providing structured test reporting, KPIs, quality dashboards, and risk assessments for PMO, Steering Committees, and governance boards.
• Ensuring testing processes adhere to organisational and regulatory standards, including data privacy and security requirements.

In-depth understanding of how to define and manage risks, issues, and interdependencies is required. You should be able to assess problems from multiple angles to ensure all relevant issues are considered when making decisions and proactively drive forward new and creative ideas which benefit the client and stakeholders.

Strategy & Governance: Define and own the overarching test strategy, framework, standards, and governance model. Create test policies, test plans, and quality metrics for large-scale programmes. Collaborate for success by partnering with stakeholders to keep projects aligned and moving forward, executing and reporting progress, risks, and actionable insights to senior leadership.

Optimize delivery by taking full ownership of test execution, driving planning, preparation, and defect resolution across every phase of transformation. Continuously identify improvement opportunities to make processes smarter, faster, and more efficient. Shape the future by building tailored approaches for upcoming SAP testing opportunities and championing SAP Business Assurance. Grow talent by developing learning plans to boost SAP testing skills and inspire excellence across the team.

Proven track record of leading testing for SAP S/4HANA implementations, migrations, or upgrades in complex, multi-site environments is essential. Strong experience across key SAP modules such as S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement, FI, SD, SuccessFactors, or related functional areas is required.

Extensive experience in test management, with significant experience on SAP S/4HANA projects is necessary. Proficiency in SAP Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, or other test management tools (e.g., TRICENTIS QTEST, HP ALM, Atlassian Jira with Xray) is expected. Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., SAP CBTA, Selenium, TOSCA or Worksoft Certify) is also important.

Strong understanding of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery methodologies within SAP programme environments is required. Demonstrated leadership capability with experience managing cross-functional, onshore/offshore, and vendor testing teams is essential. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence management and stakeholders, and to build and maintain strong team and client relationships are crucial.

Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, able to translate complex SAP business processes into clear, testable scenarios is necessary. You should be able to assess problems from multiple angles to ensure all relevant issues are considered when making decisions. Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight deadlines is also required.