Lead SAP HCM & Payroll Testing (Federal)

Accenture PLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a SAP HCM/Payroll Test Lead to oversee testing strategy, plan, and execution for an SAP SuccessFactors Payroll implementation in a federal context. You will lead payroll parallel testing, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure end-to-end readiness for deployment.

Responsibilities include defining test cycles, creating scenarios, and providing leadership with status updates and readiness assessments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading testing for SAP HCM and/or SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementations.
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading payroll parallel testing.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processing and payroll results.
• Experience reconciling payroll differences between legacy and target systems.
• Ability to distinguish expected differences from true defects (configuration, integration, conversion, or calculation).
• Experience managing multiple test cycles, defect triage, regression testing, and readiness assessments.
• Strong understanding of dependencies across payroll, HR data, time, benefits, integrations, conversions, and downstream processes.
• Experience coordinating functional, technical, business, and third-party teams through complex testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the overall test strategy, plan, scope, schedule, and entry/exit criteria.
• Coordinate testing across payroll functional, HCM functional, technical, integration, conversion, and business teams.
• Establish and manage functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and payroll-specific test cycles.
• Oversee creation of test scenarios, test scripts, test data, expected results, and requirements traceability.
• Monitor test progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and overall readiness.
• Facilitate defect triage and coordinate issue resolution across functional and technical teams.
• Provide clear test status, risk updates, and readiness reporting to leadership.
• Lead payroll parallel testing—planning cycles, data reconciliation, and production readiness.

Skills

Test leadership

Payroll testing

SAP HCM

SuccessFactors ECP

Test coordination

Defect triage

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a SAP HCM/Payroll Test Lead to oversee testing strategy, plan, and execution for an SAP SuccessFactors Payroll implementation in a federal context. You will lead payroll parallel testing, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure end-to-end readiness for deployment.

Responsibilities include defining test cycles, creating scenarios, and providing leadership with status updates and readiness assessments.