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You will provide evidence-based quality insights that support test readiness, release decisions, business acceptance, and continuous improvement across the testing lifecycle.\nIn this role, you will:\nDefine and govern SIT and UAT strategies, methodologies, quality standards, test planning practices, governance checkpoints, and readiness criteria across releases and delivery models.\nLead SIT readiness and governance reviews, oversee the closure of actions, conditions, exceptions, and risks, and provide evidence-based recommendations for release-readiness and sign-off decisions.\nGovern test design standards, requirements-to-test traceability, risk-based testing, regression suite selection, reusable test assets, test evidence, and test management repository practices.\nEstablish and govern the defect lifecycle, including defect logging, classification, severity, priority, triage, aging, service-level expectations, root cause analysis, duplicate and invalid defect handling, and deferral controls.\nDefine and maintain SIT and UAT metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards covering execution progress, test coverage, defects, aging, trends, automation, risks, and overall readiness.\nEstablish and govern the UAT approach, methodology, test planning standards, execution-readiness criteria, issue-resolution process, and business acceptance reporting.\nCoordinate UAT activities across business stakeholders and coach business users to validate end-to-end business processes beyond individual functional requirements.\nPartner with delivery teams to improve automation suitability and sustainable regression coverage while maintaining test quality, evidence, and requirements traceability.\nFacilitate governance-level defect and quality reviews, escalating unresolved critical defects, overdue actions, decision gaps, and other material testing risks.\nUse lessons learned, trend analysis, and recurring control gaps to drive measurable improvements in testing practices, quality controls, and governance effectiveness.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements,this is a hybrid position requiring three days a week in a client or Cognizant office inFoster City, California. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.\nThe working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you are engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWhat you need to have to be considered\n12 + years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, User Acceptance Testing, business process testing, SAP application delivery, or related disciplines.\nSignificant experience in enterprise testing, quality engineering, SIT leadership, or test governance for complex, integrated technology programs.\nStrong knowledge of test strategy, test planning, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, test design, regression management, defect management, and release-readiness controls.\nExperience establishing and governing SIT and UAT standards, readiness checkpoints, governance metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership-level reporting.\nExperience using enterprise test management and defect-tracking tools, preferably OpenText Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Jira, including repository structure, data quality, configuration, and reporting governance.\nAbility to interpret testing and quality data, identify risk signals, challenge incomplete evidence, and communicate clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.\nStrong facilitation, stakeholder management, decision-framing, communication, and risk-escalation skills.\nExperience working across business teams, technology groups, system integrators, managed service providers, and external delivery partners.\nThese will help you stand out\nExperience governing testing for a large-scale SAP transformation involving complex integrations and end-to-end business processes.\nExperience coordinating business-led UAT activities across multiple functions and stakeholder groups.\nKnowledge of test automation suitability, regression optimization, reusable test-asset management, and sustainable quality engineering practices.\nRelevant certifications in software testing, quality engineering, Agile delivery, project management, or SAP technologies.\nExperience presenting testing quality, readiness, defect, and risk insights to program governance and senior leadership forums.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. 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