Senior Quality Automation Specialist - Sap Sovereign Cloud

SAP SE; Portugal; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP SE seeks a Senior Quality Automation Specialist for SAP Sovereign Cloud. You will design and maintain automated API and GUI tests, integrate them into CI/CD, and collaborate with product teams, security, and operations to ensure high-quality multi-tenant cloud solutions.

Strong experience in modern automation frameworks, test management tools, and REST API validation is required. This role requires English proficiency and compliance with security processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience with focus on test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated API and GUI test suites for SAP Sovereign Cloud environments.
• Help deliver multi-tenant applications with automated testing across CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with product managers, engineers, security teams and operations.

Skills

Automated API tests

GUI test automation

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

WebdriverIO

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Quality gates

English fluency

Tools

Xray

Zephyr

HP Quality Center

Job description

Senior Quality Automation Specialist - SAP Sovereign Cloud

Empresa : Sap Tipo de Emprego : Periodo Integral Portugal

We help the world run better At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

SAP Sovereign Cloud is a specialized cloud solution designed to meet stringent data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. It is tailored for organizations that need to ensure their data remains within specific geographic or jurisdictional boundaries. A collaborative, cross-functional working group within SAP focuses on defining, developing, and promoting best practices for the adoption and implementation of SAP Sovereign Cloud solutions.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Quality Automation Assurance Engineer in the newly formed Sovereign Cloud Delivery Architecture Quality Assurance team of the Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit within the Customer Services and Delivery board area. In this role, we test and operate the internal SAP Sovereign Cloud environments used as reference by the regional Operations teams.

What you'll build

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated API and GUI test suites for SAP Sovereign Cloud environments used as reference by regional Operations teams.
• Help deliver SAP Multi-Tenant applications to SAP Sovereign Cloud customers by ensuring product quality through automated functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Work closely with technical product managers, engineers, our security team, as well as SAP product team members and Operations teams.
• Solve the intricate Sovereign Cloud challenges of scale and security, while using your functional expertise skills in the applications’ environment setup, functional expertise, and testing background (manual/automated).
• Own and continuously improve automated quality validation processes within CI/CD pipelines for releases and patches deployed to pre-production cloud landscapes.
• Analyse automated test results, identify defects, support root cause analysis, and validate fixes through automated regression testing.

What you bring

• Strong hands‑on experience developing automated API and GUI tests using modern frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM), Page Factory, or similar design patterns
• Proven experience managing test assets, requirements traceability, and execution reporting using Test Management Systems such as Xray, Zephyr, or HP Quality Center.
• Strong experience in API testing, including REST services, request/response validation, authentication mechanisms, and automated API test development.
• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Experience implementing quality gates and automated validation in deployment pipelines.
• 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience with a strong focus on test automation for API and GUI applications. Limited manual testing may be required for exploratory validation and new feature assessment.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• ISTQB Foundations certification and understanding of the Software Testing lifecycle.
• Product knowledge of SAP BTP solutions.

Where you belong

• Own quality outcomes across Sovereign Cloud systems and mentor junior engineers
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, reliability, automation, and accountability.
• Make a direct impact on the security and quality of SAP's Sovereign Cloud offerings - working at the intersection of cutting-edge infrastructure, strict compliance, and scalable delivery.

Due to the potentially classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose‑driven and future‑focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: [e-mail].

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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Requisition ID: 458151 | Work Area: Software-Quality Assurance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid