Senior Technical Specialist

Job Summary

SAP Public Cloud Test Manager Job Title SAP Public Cloud Test Manager Practice / Function SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Delivery - Quality Assurance & Testing Programme SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Transformation Programme (Multi-Wave) Reports To Programme Director / Delivery Lead Direct Reports Test Leads, Functional Testers, Automation Engineers (matrix and/or direct) Location Dublin Grade / Band Senior Manager / Band 3B (aligned to HCLTech career framework) Employment Type Full-time, Permanent / Programme-aligned Fixed Term Security Clearance Garda (as required by public sector client) Role Purpose The SAP Public Cloud Test Manager owns the end-to-end test strategy, planning, governance and execution across an SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud programme, spanning Finance & Procurement, SuccessFactors (EC, Payroll, Recruiting, Onboarding, ESM, Pensions) and adjacent modules. The role ensures that all in-scope process areas are validated to the required quality standard across Fit-to-Standard, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression, Performance and Cutover/Hypercare test cycles, in line with SAP Activate methodology and client governance requirements. This is a senior, client-facing leadership role responsible for building and running the test governance model, managing a multi-workstream test team, ensuring defect and risk visibility to the Programme Board, and safeguarding go-live readiness across each deployment wave. Key Responsibilities 1. Test Strategy & Governance

• Define and own the overarching Test Strategy and Test Management Plan for the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud programme, aligned to SAP Activate phases (Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run).
• Establish test governance structures, including entry/exit criteria for each stage gate, test phase sign-off protocols, and escalation routes into the Programme RAID log.
• Define the test scope and approach across Fit-to-Standard validation, functional/configuration testing, integration testing (CI/BIM, FI-CA, SD), data migration/reconciliation testing, security/authorisation testing, performance testing and UAT.
• Ensure alignment of the test approach with Signavio process documentation (L0-L3) and Cloud ALM test management tooling. 2. Test Planning & Estimation
• Develop detailed, wave-by-wave test plans (Level 2/3), including timelines, resource models, environment bookings and dependency mapping into the master programme plan.
• Build and maintain the test case repository, traceability matrix (requirements-to-test-case-to-defect) and test coverage reports across all in-scope process areas.
• Coordinate test data and environment strategy with the Basis/Technical Architecture team, ensuring environment availability and data readiness ahead of each cycle. 3. Test Execution & Defect Management
• Lead and coordinate execution of SIT, UAT, Regression and Performance test cycles across workstreams, ensuring adherence to plan, quality standards and entry/exit criteria.
• Own the defect management lifecycle end-to-end - triage, prioritisation, root-cause tracking, retest and closure - chairing daily defect triage calls with functional and technical leads.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional defects, escalating blockers and quality risks to the Programme Director and relevant Workstream Leads in a timely manner.
• Own UAT sign-off coordination with business process owners and ensure formal client acceptance ahead of each go/no-go decision. 4. Automation, Tools & Continuous Improvement
• Champion test automation opportunities (e.g., SAP Cloud ALM Test Automation, Tricentis, to improve regression testing efficiency across waves.
• Maintain and continuously improve test tooling, templates, dashboards and reporting standards, embedding lessons learned across successive waves. 5. Reporting, Stakeholder & Team Management
• Provide regular, accurate test status reporting (RAG, defect burn-down, cove

Key Responsibilities

SAP Public Cloud Test Manager Job Title SAP Public Cloud Test Manager Practice / Function SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Delivery - Quality Assurance & Testing Programme SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Transformation Programme (Multi-Wave) Reports To Programme Director / Delivery Lead Direct Reports Test Leads, Functional Testers, Automation Engineers (matrix and/or direct) Location Dublin Grade / Band Senior Manager / Band 3B (aligned to HCLTech career framework) Employment Type Full-time, Permanent / Programme-aligned Fixed Term Security Clearance Garda (as required by public sector client) Role Purpose The SAP Public Cloud Test Manager owns the end-to-end test strategy, planning, governance and execution across an SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud programme, spanning Finance & Procurement, SuccessFactors (EC, Payroll, Recruiting, Onboarding, ESM, Pensions) and adjacent modules. The role ensures that all in-scope process areas are validated to the required quality standard across Fit-to-Standard, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression, Performance and Cutover/Hypercare test cycles, in line with SAP Activate methodology and client governance requirements. This is a senior, client-facing leadership role responsible for building and running the test governance model, managing a multi-workstream test team, ensuring defect and risk visibility to the Programme Board, and safeguarding go-live readiness across each deployment wave. Key Responsibilities 1. Test Strategy & Governance

• Define and own the overarching Test Strategy and Test Management Plan for the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud programme, aligned to SAP Activate phases (Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run).
• Establish test governance structures, including entry/exit criteria for each stage gate, test phase sign-off protocols, and escalation routes into the Programme RAID log.
• Define the test scope and approach across Fit-to-Standard validation, functional/configuration testing, integration testing (CI/BIM, FI-CA, SD), data migration/reconciliation testing, security/authorisation testing, performance testing and UAT.
• Ensure alignment of the test approach with Signavio process documentation (L0-L3) and Cloud ALM test management tooling. 2. Test Planning & Estimation
• Develop detailed, wave-by-wave test plans (Level 2/3), including timelines, resource models, environment bookings and dependency mapping into the master programme plan.
• Build and maintain the test case repository, traceability matrix (requirements-to-test-case-to-defect) and test coverage reports across all in-scope process areas.
• Coordinate test data and environment strategy with the Basis/Technical Architecture team, ensuring environment availability and data readiness ahead of each cycle. 3. Test Execution & Defect Management
• Lead and coordinate execution of SIT, UAT, Regression and Performance test cycles across workstreams, ensuring adherence to plan, quality standards and entry/exit criteria.
• Own the defect management lifecycle end-to-end - triage, prioritisation, root-cause tracking, retest and closure - chairing daily defect triage calls with functional and technical leads.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional defects, escalating blockers and quality risks to the Programme Director and relevant Workstream Leads in a timely manner.
• Own UAT sign-off coordination with business process owners and ensure formal client acceptance ahead of each go/no-go decision. 4. Automation, Tools & Continuous Improvement
• Champion test automation opportunities (e.g., SAP Cloud ALM Test Automation, Tricentis, to improve regression testing efficiency across waves.
• Maintain and continuously improve test tooling, templates, dashboards and reporting standards, embedding lessons learned across successive waves. 5. Reporting, Stakeholder & Team Management
• Provide regular, accurate test status reporting (RAG, defect burn-down, cove

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