Strategic SAP SIT/UAT Governance Lead

Cognizant; Foster City (CA); Híbrido; USD 96 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Resumo da oferta

Cognizant in Foster City, California seeks SIT Governance Lead - SAP to define and govern enterprise testing standards across SIT and UAT for a complex SAP transformation. You will collaborate with stakeholders, tech teams, SIs, MSPs, and partners to ensure readiness and quality.

You will lead readiness reviews, oversee defect lifecycle, establish metrics and reporting, and drive continuous improvement. This role offers hybrid work with three days in an office and competitive compensation.

Qualificações

• 18+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, User Acceptance Testing, business process testing, SAP application delivery, or related disciplines.
• Significant experience in enterprise testing, SIT leadership, or test governance for complex, integrated technology programs.
• Strong knowledge of test strategy, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, regression management, defect management, and release-readiness controls.
• Experience establishing and governing SIT and UAT standards, readiness checkpoints, quality metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership-level reporting.
• Experience with enterprise test management and defect-tracking tools, preferably OpenText ALM and Jira, including repository structure and reporting governance.
• Ability to interpret quality data, identify risk signals, challenge incomplete or inconsistent evidence, and communicate clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, decision-framing, communication, and escalation skills.
• Experience working across business teams, technology groups, system integrators, managed service providers, and external partners.

Responsabilidades

• Define and govern SIT and UAT strategies, methodologies, quality standards, test planning practices, governance checkpoints, and readiness criteria across releases and delivery models.
• Lead SIT readiness reviews, oversee the closure of conditions, actions, exceptions, and risks, and provide evidence-based quality recommendations for release-readiness and sign-off decisions.
• Govern test design standards, requirements-to-test traceability, risk-based coverage, regression suite selection, reusable test assets, test evidence, and test management repository practices.
• Define and govern the defect lifecycle, including logging, classification, severity, priority, triage, aging, service-level expectations, root cause analysis, duplicate and invalid defect handling, and deferral controls.
• Establish testing metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards covering execution progress, test coverage, defects, aging, trends, automation, risks, and overall readiness.
• Establish and govern the UAT approach, methodology, test planning standards, execution-readiness criteria, issue-resolution process, and business acceptance reporting.
• Coordinate UAT activities across business stakeholders and coach business users to validate end-to-end business processes beyond individual functional requirements.
• Partner with delivery teams to improve automation suitability and sustainable regression coverage while maintaining test quality, evidence, and requirements traceability.
• Facilitate governance-level defect and quality reviews, escalating unresolved critical defects, overdue actions, decision gaps, and other material testing risks.
• Use lessons learned, trend analysis, and recurring control gaps to drive measurable improvements in testing practices and governance effectiveness.

Conhecimentos

SIT leadership

Test governance

Test strategy

Requirements traceability

Risk-based testing

Defect management

Release-readiness controls

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Escalation skills

Ferramentas

OpenText ALM

Jira

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Cognizant in Foster City, California seeks SIT Governance Lead - SAP to define and govern enterprise testing standards across SIT and UAT for a complex SAP transformation. You will collaborate with stakeholders, tech teams, SIs, MSPs, and partners to ensure readiness and quality.

You will lead readiness reviews, oversee defect lifecycle, establish metrics and reporting, and drive continuous improvement. This role offers hybrid work with three days in an office and competitive compensation.