SAP Test Manager

Accenture; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 94,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonuses and paid holidays

Job summary

Accenture, a global professional services leader, seeks an experienced SAP testing leader to drive end-to-end testing across SAP transformations, ensuring readiness for milestones and go-live. You will align business, functional, technical, and data teams around an integrated testing strategy and leverage AI-enabled testing to improve quality and predictability.

You will manage test plans, cycles, and dashboards, lead defect triage and governance, and mentor onshore/offshore teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years SAP testing, quality engineering, delivery, or transformation experience.
• Experience leading SAP S/4HANA implementations or other complex SAP programs.
• Experience coordinating global, onshore/offshore, cross-functional delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing delivery across SAP transformations, including SIT, regression, UAT, integration, and production readiness testing.
• Develop and manage integrated test plans, schedules, entry/exit criteria, dependencies, resources, and milestones.
• Coordinate testing across business, functional, technical, RICEFW, data migration, integration, security, environment, and deployment teams.
• Drive test readiness by ensuring test scenarios, data, environments, and testers are prepared for execution.
• Manage testing against plan, identify gaps, blockers, dependencies, capacity constraints, and recovery actions.
• Lead defect management and triage, including severity, prioritization, aging, resolution, retesting, closure, and escalation.
• Develop testing dashboards and reporting showing planned vs. actual, pass/fail, defect trends, risks, and forecasts.
• Facilitate testing governance and drive actions, decisions, risks, and issues to closure.
• Partner with teams to resolve testing issues and maintain momentum.
• Support testing exit assessments with objective readiness evidence against quality gates.
• Lead onshore and offshore testing resources and standardize ways of working.
• Leverage AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to improve test creation, execution, and reporting.
• Contribute to Delivery Excellence testing assets, accelerators, methodologies, and leading practices.

Skills

SAP testing

S/4HANA

Test leadership

SIT testing

UAT testing

Defect management

Cross-functional delivery

Test automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Associate degree +6 years experience

Job description

We Are:

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and, Interactive, Technology, and Operations services, all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

You Are:

You are an experienced SAP testing leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale SAP transformation programs. You bring structure, discipline, and execution rigor to testing, helping organizations deliver high-quality SAP S/4HANA solutions and achieve readiness for critical program milestones and go-live.

You are a hands-on delivery leader capable of aligning business, functional, technical, data, integration, and deployment teams around an integrated testing strategy and plan. You excel at driving test readiness and execution, managing defects and dependencies, identifying risks, and ensuring issues are resolved before they impact downstream milestones.

You use data and analytics to understand where testing is against plan, what is driving gaps, and what actions are required to recover. You continuously seek better ways of working, leveraging automation, GenAI, and AI-enabled testing capabilities to improve quality, efficiency, and predictability.

Above all, you are passionate about delivering quality and ensuring testing provides confidence that SAP solutions are ready for the business.

The Work:

• 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:

• 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 expe rience with Test automatio n

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