SAP Testing with QA Validation Lead

MAK Technologies LLC; California; On-site; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

MAK Technologies LLC seeks an experienced SAP S/4HANA validation specialist for onsite work in Foster City, CA or Raleigh, NC. The role focuses on establishing validation standards, governing lifecycle activities, and ensuring regulatory compliance across SAP systems.

The candidate will lead risk-based validation assessments, drive standardized methodologies, and provide documentation and traceability throughout the validation lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Ability to define and maintain validation strategy for SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Experience aligning validation with regulatory requirements and SOPs.
• Lead risk-based validation assessments for projects, releases, interfaces, and data migrations.
• Govern validation lifecycle from requirements to release approval.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the SAP S/4HANA validation strategy and governance framework.
• Lead risk-based validation assessments for projects, enhancements, releases, interfaces, reports, and data migrations.
• Govern validation lifecycle execution from requirements through release approval.
• Drive standardization of validation methodologies across SAP streams and systems.
• Ensure compliance with GxP and data integrity principles.
• Maintain documentation, traceability, and validation evidence.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA validation

GxP compliance

Regulatory knowledge

Documentation & traceability

Risk-based validation

Tools

SAP

Validation tooling

Job description

Location: Foster City, CA or Raleigh, NC - Onsite

Duration: Long Term

Rate/hr on c2c (All Inc)

Key Accountabilities: -

• Define and maintain the enterprise SAP S/4HANA validation strategy and governance framework.
• Support establishing validation standards, procedures, templates, and best practices aligned with regulatory requirements and company SOPs.
• Lead risk-based validation assessments for projects, enhancements, releases, interfaces, reports, and data migrations.
• Establish and govern the Validation approach, methodology, Validation planning and standards.
• Govern validation lifecycle execution from requirements through release approval.
• Drive standardization of validation methodologies across SAP functional streams and integrated systems.
• Ensure compliance with GxP regulations, computerized system validation requirements, data integrity principles, and corporate quality policies.
• Ensure appropriate documentation, traceability, and validation evidence are maintained.
• Define and govern defect lifecycle, logging, classification, severity and priority, triage, aging, service-level expectations, root cause analysis, duplicate and invalid handling, and deferral controls.
• Facilitate governance-level defect reviews and accelerate quality risks, unresolved critical defects, overdue actions, and decision gaps.
• Ensure defect trends and risk exposure are visible to accountable stakeholders and appropriately considered in readiness decisions.
• Define and maintain Validation metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and report standards for exec ution progress, coverage, defects, aging, trends, automation, risks, and readiness.
• Review validation documentation for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability from requirements through testing and defect resolution.
• Ensure appropriate defect management, triage, remediation, and closure criteria are achieved.
• Support implementation of quality gates and entry/exit criteria across validation phases.
• Participate in SAP Change Control and CAB reviews.
• Ensure validation activities are integrated into release and deployment plans.
• Provide release readiness recommendations and validation sign-off.
• Facilitate governance reviews, steering meetings, risk assessments, and compliance reviews.
• Mentor Validation engineers and project validation resources.
• Support SAP team for Audit and inspection readiness activities.

Support continuous improvement initiatives for S4 HANA validation processes, automation, and governance maturity.

If interested, please send your up-to-date resume & kindly provide the following info: -

Total IT Exp-

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Full Lifecycle Implementation Done (no. of end-to-end projects) -