Business Transformation Lead: Testing

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The Key Purpose of this role is to be responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and executing testing activities across Aurora deployments within the Africa Zone. The role serves as the primary liaison between the Global Testing Centre of Excellence and local deployment teams, driving testing quality, business participation, defect resolution, business readiness, and deployment readiness across all Africa Aurora programme deployments. The role will be reporting to the Business Transformation Manager: Tech Projects, with a dotted-line relationship to the Aurora Global Test Lead. It will also ensure that global testing standards, methodologies, and governance processes are consistently adopted while enabling effective local execution of System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Central Team Alignment & Governance

• Act as the primary testing representative between the Aurora Global Testing CoE and Africa deployment teams.
• Ensure alignment with global testing methodologies, standards, governance processes, and reporting requirements.
• Participate in testing governance forums, deployment reviews, and execution planning sessions.
• Communicate testing risks, constraints, readiness status, and resource requirements to programme stakeholders.
• Drive consistent adoption of Aurora testing standards across all deployment teams.

2. SIT/UAT Execution Leadership

• Lead planning, coordination, and execution of SIT and UAT activities across Africa deployments.
• Maintain testing schedules, execution plans, and progress tracking mechanisms.
• Monitor daily testing progress and drive milestone achievement.
• Coordinate Tower Leads, Ambassadors, Business Users, and Functional Teams.
• Identify risks, dependencies, issues, and blockers.
• Facilitate defect triage and drive timely issue resolution.
• Replan testing activities when required to maintain deployment timelines.

3. Testing Tools & Enablement

• Support Azure DevOps as the primary testing management platform.
• Train and guide testers on test execution, evidence management, and defect creation standards.
• Ensure testing results, execution status, and defect information are accurately maintained.
• Promote consistent tool usage and testing practices.
• Support testing dashboards, metrics, and status reporting.

4. Quality Assurance & Evidence Management

• Ensure testing complies with Aurora Global quality standards and audit requirements.
• Review evidence for completeness, accuracy, and traceability.
• Ensure testing documentation supports programme governance and compliance requirements.
• Monitor adherence to testing entry and exit criteria.
• Validate business sign-off and testing approval processes.

5. Local Readiness & Stakeholder Coordination

• Ensure readiness of users, Golden Data, environments, access, integrations, and testing assets before execution begins.
• Coordinate participation from business teams, control teams, deployment teams, and process owners.
• Track readiness milestones and escalate gaps that may impact testing schedules.
• Support business users throughout SIT and UAT execution cycles.
• Facilitate communication across business and IT stakeholders.
• Support readiness assessments and go-live decision-making activities.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

1. Technical Skills

• SAP S/4HANA business process understanding.
• End-to-end testing lifecycle management.
• SIT and UAT coordination.
• Azure DevOps test management.
• Defect management and issue tracking.
• Test evidence management.
• Reporting and dashboard preparation.
• Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Risk and issue management.

2. Leadership Competencies

• Strong execution and delivery focus.
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Planning and coordination.
• Problem solving and decision-making.
• Communication and facilitation skills.
• Risk management capability.
• Attention to detail and quality orientation.
• Ability to work across business and technology teams.
• Ability to operate within global and regional programme structures.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• SIT completion against approved plan.
• UAT completion against approved plan.
• Test execution completion rate and testing milestone achievement.
• Percentage of testing evidence accepted first time.
• Defect closure rate within agreed timelines.
• Critical defect ageing and resolution performance.
• Business sign-off completion.
• Testing readiness milestone achievement.
• Compliance with Aurora Global testing standards.
• Audit readiness and evidence quality.
• Go-live testing readiness achievement.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 7-10 years of experience in ERP programme delivery, testing management, SAP implementations, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience should include SAP S/4HANA implementation programmes, SIT and UAT management, multi-country deployment or transformation projects, testing governance, quality assurance, defect management, stakeholder management, and Azure DevOps or equivalent testing management platforms.
• Experience working within large-scale global transformation programmes is advantageous.

Additional Information:

• Band: VI

SAB (Pty) Ltd is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plans and talent requirements. Management reserves the right to use additional and relevant information as criteria for short-listing.