Senior SAP Quality Engineering Manager

Stryker India Private Limited; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker India Private Limited in Gurugram (Hybrid) seeks a Senior Engineer to lead SAP code management, transport governance, and promotion across development, testing, staging, and production environments. You will drive end-to-end traceability of SAP development objects and ensure alignment of requirements, designs, changes, testing evidence, approvals and deployments.

Responsibilities include technical reviews, code quality assessments, compliance validation, and release readiness management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in SAP/ERP programs.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, ABAP, and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and code governance.
• Experience with CTS+, ChaRM, and SAP Solution Manager.
• Proven ability to coordinate across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP code management, transport governance, and promotion across environments.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability of SAP objects from requirements to deployment.
• Conduct technical reviews, code quality assessments, and compliance validations.
• Govern release readiness by managing transports, dependencies, and rollback plans.
• Partner with development, QA, infra, and support teams for seamless releases.
• Monitor transport/deployment performance, troubleshoot issues, mitigate risks.
• Maintain technical debt registers and recommend standardization strategies.
• Drive automation of transport controls, quality checks, and reporting.
• Provide governance and guidance to internal teams and system integrators.
• Deliver reporting and insights on code quality, transport status, and risk.

Skills

SAP code management

Transport governance

Release management

DevOps

Code governance

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

ABAP development

CTS+

ChaRM

SAP Solution Manager

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

Senior Engineer, EDT, Commercial ERP, Code Management Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What you will do:

• Lead SAP code management, transport governance, and promotion activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability of SAP development objects by aligning requirements, technical designs, code changes, testing evidence, approvals, and production deployments.
• Conduct and coordinate technical reviews, code quality assessments, and compliance validations to strengthen security, performance, and maintainability.
• Govern release readiness by managing transport inventories, dependency mapping, deployment plans, validation criteria, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with development, QA, infrastructure, and support teams to execute seamless releases, cutovers, deployments, and hypercare activities.
• Monitor transport and deployment performance, troubleshoot issues, drive corrective actions, and proactively mitigate delivery risks.
• Maintain technical debt registers and recommend strategies for code simplification, standardization, and alignment with SAP best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation of transport controls, quality checks, release reporting, and deployment processes.
• Provide technical governance and guidance to internal teams and system integrators, ensuring adherence to development, documentation, and release standards.
• Deliver actionable reporting and insights on code quality, transport status, release readiness, technical debt, compliance, and operational risks.

What you will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including a proven track record delivering large-scale global ERP transformation programs.
• 5+ years of experience in SAP software engineering, technical delivery, transport management, release management, DevOps, or code governance.
• Strong hands-on expertise with SAP S/4HANA, ABAP development concepts, technical objects, integrations, transports, and release processes.
• Experience implementing development lifecycle controls, conducting code reviews, performing technical quality assessments, and driving defect remediation.
• Working knowledge of source control, branching strategies, version management, CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, and deployment best practices.
• Proficiency with SAP and enterprise delivery tools such as CTS+, ChaRM, SAP Solution Manager, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jira, and ServiceNow.
• Deep understanding of SAP master data, enterprise integrations, middleware technologies, and cross-platform data architectures.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate effectively across global, matrixed organizations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to independently lead initiatives, develop executive-ready documentation, and drive business outcomes in dynamic environments.

Travel Percentage: 10% Experience Level Senior Level