Senior SAP SIT/UAT Governance Lead

Cognizant; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Foster City, CA is seeking a Senior SAP Test Manager to define and govern enterprise SIT and UAT standards for a complex SAP transformation. You will lead test strategies, planning, and governance across releases, collaborating with business, technology, and vendor teams.

The role emphasizes evidence-based quality insights, readiness gating, and risk management, with a focus on traceability, defect lifecycle, metrics, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software testing, quality engineering, UAT, or SAP delivery.
• Extensive experience in SIT leadership and test governance for complex programs.
• Strong knowledge of test strategy, planning, traceability, risk-based testing, design, and defect management.
• Experience establishing SIT/UAT standards, readiness checkpoints, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership reporting.
• Familiarity with enterprise test management and defect-tracking tools (ALM, Jira).
• Ability to interpret data, identify risks, and communicate recommendations to executives.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, decision-framing, and risk escalation.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern SIT and UAT strategies, standards, planning practices, governance, and readiness criteria.
• Lead SIT readiness and governance reviews, close actions, and provide evidence-based release recommendations.
• Govern defect lifecycle, classification, triage, and aging with SLAs and root-cause analysis.
• Define SIT/UAT metrics, dashboards, and reporting covering coverage, defects, trends, and readiness.
• Coordinate UAT across business stakeholders and coach users to validate end-to-end processes.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to improve automation suitability and regression coverage.
• Facilitate governance reviews and escalate critical defects or risk gaps.
• Use lessons learned to drive measurable improvements in testing practices and governance.

Skills

Software testing

Quality engineering

SIT leadership

UAT governance

Test strategy

Stakeholder management

Release readiness

ALM governance

Jira

Tools

ALM

Jira

Job description

Cognizant in Foster City, CA is seeking a Senior SAP Test Manager to define and govern enterprise SIT and UAT standards for a complex SAP transformation. You will lead test strategies, planning, and governance across releases, collaborating with business, technology, and vendor teams.

The role emphasizes evidence-based quality insights, readiness gating, and risk management, with a focus on traceability, defect lifecycle, metrics, and continuous improvement.