SAP S/4HANA QA Lead — Testing & Automation

Pentair Water India Private Limited; Golden Valley (MN); On-site; USD 96,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentair seeks an SAP Testing & QA Lead for its Golden Valley, MN location to define testing strategy, govern standards, and drive go-live readiness across SAP ECC/S/4HANA environments. In this full‑time role, you will lead test planning, execution, defect governance, and automation efforts using Azure DevOps and Tosca, coaching teams and delivering high‑quality SAP solutions to production.

The ideal candidate will partner with ERP, process owners, and external partners to ensure risk visibility

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise application testing.
• 5+ years supporting SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Ability to travel up to 20% with frequency varying based on business needs and project demands.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the SAP S/4HANA testing strategy across regression, integration, user acceptance, project, release, and implementation testing, establishing standards, governance, methodologies, KPIs, training, and continuous improvement practices.
• Lead test planning, execution, defect management, and release readiness across SAP modules, SAP Fiori, interfaces, custom developments, integrations, test data, and test environment readiness.
• Leverage Azure DevOps (ADO) to manage test plans, test cases, execution status, defect tracking, reporting, dashboards, metrics, and release quality governance.
• Partner with the Test Automation Team to drive expansion of automated testing capabilities using Tricentis Tosca and related testing tools, improving regression coverage, execution efficiency, and overall quality outcomes.
• Define and maintain end-of-the-end business process test coverage across OTC, PTP, RTR, EWM, PTM, Quality, GTS, and other integrated SAP business processes.
• Collaborate with business process owners, SAP functional teams, developers, implementation/AMS partners, project managers, and infrastructure teams to ensure end-to-end testing alignment, risk visibility, go-live readiness, hypercare support, and successful deployments.
• Coach business testers, super users, and project teams on testing methodologies, defect management, test execution standards, and quality expectations.
• Lead the adoption of testing best practices and continuous improvement initiatives, establishing and tracking KPIs for test coverage, defect leakage, automation rates, release quality, and testing efficiency to demonstrate measurable business outcomes.
• Govern testing deliverables and quality standards for AMS providers, implementation partners, and third‑party vendors supporting SAP initiatives.

Skills

SIT testing

UAT testing

End-to-end testing

Defect governance

Quality metrics

Azure DevOps

Test automation

SAP testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Tricentis Tosca

Worksoft Certify

HP ALM/UFT

Selenium

Job description

Pentair seeks an SAP Testing & QA Lead for its Golden Valley, MN location to define testing strategy, govern standards, and drive go-live readiness across SAP ECC/S/4HANA environments. In this full‑time role, you will lead test planning, execution, defect governance, and automation efforts using Azure DevOps and Tosca, coaching teams and delivering high‑quality SAP solutions to production.

The ideal candidate will partner with ERP, process owners, and external partners to ensure risk visibility