SAP Test Lead – S/4HANA Readiness & Automation

Accenture; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced SAP testing leader to drive testing across large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformations. You will align business, functional, technical, data, and deployment teams around an integrated testing strategy and execute end-to-end testing, including SIT, regression, UAT, and production readiness.

Travel may be required up to 50% depending on client needs. You bring 7+ years in SAP testing, strong governance and defect-management capabilities, and a passion for quality.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of SAP testing, quality engineering, delivery, or transformation experience.
• Proven experience leading testing activities within SAP S/4HANA implementations or other complex SAP programs.
• Experience leading SIT, regression, UAT, defect management, and testing readiness activities.
• Strong understanding of SAP business processes, RICEFW, integrations, data migration, environments, and cross-functional testing dependencies.
• Experience coordinating global, cross-functional, and onshore/offshore delivery teams.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)
• Bonus Points if you have experience with Test automation

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing delivery across SAP transformation programs, including functional testing, SIT, regression, UAT, integration, and production readiness testing.
• Develop and manage integrated test plans, schedules, test cycles, entry/exit criteria, dependencies, resources, and execution milestones.
• Coordinate testing across business, functional, technical, RICEFW, data migration, integration, security, environment, and deployment teams.
• Drive test readiness by ensuring test scenarios, test data, environments, integrations, resources, and business testers are prepared for execution.
• Manage testing against plan and identify execution gaps, blockers, dependencies, capacity constraints, and recovery actions.
• Lead defect management and triage, including severity, prioritization, ownership, aging, resolution, retesting, closure, and escalation.
• Develop testing dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility into planned versus actual execution, pass/fail rates, defect trends, risks, and forecasted completion.
• Facilitate testing governance and drive actions, decisions, risks, and issues through closure.
• Partner with functional, technical, data, business, and deployment teams to resolve testing issues and maintain execution momentum.
• Support testing exit assessments and provide objective evidence of readiness against established quality gates and acceptance criteria.
• Lead onshore and offshore testing resources and establish consistent ways of working across teams.
• Leverage AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to improve test creation, execution, regression coverage, defect analysis, and reporting.
• Contribute to Delivery Excellence testing assets, accelerators, methodologies, and leading practices.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 50% depending on business need and client requirements
• Here’s what you need:

Skills

SAP testing

Testing leadership

Delivery leadership

S/4HANA knowledge

Test automation

GenAI / AI testing

Data-driven testing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP S/4HANA testing tools

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced SAP testing leader to drive testing across large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformations. You will align business, functional, technical, data, and deployment teams around an integrated testing strategy and execute end-to-end testing, including SIT, regression, UAT, and production readiness.

Travel may be required up to 50% depending on client needs. You bring 7+ years in SAP testing, strong governance and defect-management capabilities, and a passion for quality.