Data Testing Lead

Undisclosed; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 94,000 - 127,000; Part time

Job summary

Undisclosed is seeking a contract tester to lead BAT activities across SAP ECC PP and related modules, acting as the main liaison to business stakeholders throughout testing. You will coordinate go-live readiness, guide users, and manage defects in collaboration with technical teams.

The role requires strong reporting, executive presentation skills, and experience with cutover support in a hybrid onsite/offsite environment at the Brighton client site.

Qualifications

• Lead and coordinate BAT activities across SAP ECC PP and related modules (QM, PS).
• Be the primary point of contact for business stakeholders and process owners during BAT.
• Support go-live readiness, provide guidance, and drive issue resolution during testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate BAT activities across SAP ECC PP (mainly module), QM and PS.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders and process owners during BAT.
• Support business users during cutover and test execution, guiding and resolving issues.
• Monitor daily testing progress, identify risks, and drive mitigation actions.
• Prepare status updates and executive presentations on testing progress and readiness.
• Facilitate client meetings to review status and confirm next steps.
• Coordinate defect management, triage, and validation of fixes with teams.
• Support governance and audit requirements through testing evidence review.
• Build relationships with client stakeholders and support go-live readiness.
• Contribute to continuous improvement with solution architect and technical teams.
• Operate in a hybrid delivery model, four days onsite at client premises.

Skills

SAP ECC PP

UAT

Stakeholder Management

Test Coordination & Governance

Client Relationship Management

Executive Reporting

Cutover support

Job description

Duration: contract to run until 30/06/2027

Location: Brighton. Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £598 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

Clearance required: UK/EU Passport holder

• Lead and coordinate Business Acceptance Tests (UAT although the client refers to BAT) activities across SAP ECC PP (mainly module), QM and PS (supportive modules), ensuring successful execution of predefined test scenarios/scripts.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders, key users and process owners throughout the BAT phase.
• Support business users during cutover and test execution, providing guidance, resolving issues and ensuring timely completion of testing activities.
• Monitor daily testing progress against plan, identifying risks, dependencies and potential delays, and proactively driving mitigation actions.
• Prepare and deliver regular status updates and executive presentations, clearly communicating testing progress, key findings, defect trends and overall deployment readiness.
• Facilitate daily and weekly meetings with client stakeholders to review execution status, discuss open issues and agree on next steps.
• Coordinate defect management activities, including issue logging, prioritization, tracking and validation of fixes in collaboration with functional and technical teams.
• Support defect triage sessions, ensuring accurate impact assessment and timely resolution of business-critical issues.
• Produce and maintain BAT reporting dashboards, including test execution status, pass/fail rates, open defects, risks and readiness indicators.
• Coordinate and supervise the activities of a Senior Consultant and a Consultant, ensuring alignment of priorities, quality of deliverables and adherence to project timelines.
• Review testing evidence and documentation to ensure compliance with project governance and audit requirements.
• Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, fostering collaboration and maintaining confidence throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Support go-live readiness assessments by consolidating testing results, outstanding issues, risks and business sign-off status.
• Contribute to continuous system improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities and working closely with the solution architect and technical teams to develop and implement the solution.
• Operate within a hybrid delivery model, working on-site at the client's UK premises four days per week to support testing execution, stakeholder management and project governance activities.

Skills:

• SAP ECC PP
• Business Acceptance Tests (UAT)
• Stakeholder Management
• Test Coordination & Governance
• Client Relationship Management
• Executive Reporting & Presentation Skills
• Cutover support

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!