QA, Sr. R2R Test Engineer

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people - and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Senior QA Test Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring that solutions function correctly and are error-free by overseeing the verification and validation of product requirements and implementing advanced quality assurance processes. This role involves not only monitoring and evaluating testing outcomes but also driving the development of innovative testing strategies and plans. Collaborating closely with development teams, the Sr. QA Engineer oversees comprehensive tests, including regression, functional, and performance tests for both new and existing functionalities. Reviewing complex test results to recommend corrective actions is crucial, as is researching and implementing cutting-edge testing technologies, such as machine learning. Additionally, the Sr. QA Engineer leads and trains team members, supports architects in developing robust automation strategies, and generates scripts for automated testing. This role also involves leading the development, build, and support of complex systems that may have system-wide impact and managing this work across multiple teams to ensure the efficient delivery of high-quality products.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead testing strategy and architecture, automation framework and tools to aid testing, operations, and maintenance of the data warehouse.
• Write and execute test plans, design and develop test tools, debug and report code bugs, and push quality upstream.
• Measure performance of various components (using simulated stress tests) and report any outliers/exceptions.
• Work with Business Analysts to interpret testing needs as requirements are being developed.
• Evaluate testability of business and technical requirements based on business/functional requirement document(s), use cases, user stories, and/or solution design documents.
• Manage requirement/design reviews or sprint/release planning sessions.
• Help perform impact analysis on changes to existing architecture, work processes, and systems.
• Design, develop, and implement reusable components.
• Manage the set up and maintenance of test environments for both manual and automated testing.
• Monitor test environments establishing thresholds and alerts.
• Ensure availability of data for testing.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Provide root cause analysis on defects and documented issues and decide the best solutions.
• Mentor and train junior engineers at SGWS in implementing best practices.
• Lead and oversee validation of SAP S/4HANA Record-to-Report (RTR/FICO) processes, ensuring end-to-end financial process integrity and cross-module integration consistency.
• Validate financial processes including GL, AP, AR, Intercompany, Tax, Fixed Assets, and Financial Close, ensuring accuracy of postings, reconciliations, and reporting outputs.
• Oversee and execute end-to-end testing of financial flows including journal entries, invoicing, billing, intercompany transactions, and payment processing.
• Lead integration testing across SAP and enterprise ecosystems, including Ariba, Concur, Biller Direct, Blackline, FINTECH, Motus, OpenText (VIM/ADA, xECM), TM1, Vertex, Vistex, AMEX, and banking platforms.
• Validate integrations using EAPI, SAP CPI, Kafka, APIs, IDocs, and middleware, and ensure data consistency across SAP Datasphere, BW, and enterprise reporting platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve defects related to financial processing, integrations, and data inconsistencies; lead root cause analysis across cross-functional teams.
• Mentor QA engineers and guide teams on RTR process validation, financial data integrity, and cross-system testing best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Typically, 3+ years of quality assurance testing, or other relevant roles work experience.
• • 3+ years of experience with SAP S/4 HANA in the area of RTR/FICO
• Extensive experience using testing frameworks, tools, and test automation frameworks.
• In-depth familiarity with software development, testing practices, and quality assurance processes.
• • Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.
• Experience with software design and development, testing practices, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience in DevOps and Agile technology environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in SAP RTR/FICO processes, including GL, AP, AR, Tax, Intercompany, and Financial Close.
• Experience validating financial systems integrated with enterprise ecosystems such as Ariba, Concur, Blackline, FINTECH, OpenText, TM1, Vertex, Vistex, AMEX, and banking platforms.
• Strong understanding of financial data reconciliation, accounting principles, and end-to-end reporting flows.
• Experience testing integration patterns including APIs, EAPI, SAP CPI, Kafka-based messaging, and IDoc processing.
• Experience validating financial data pipelines and analytics integrations using SAP Datasphere and enterprise reporting platforms.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA migration testing, including ECC to S/4 data conversion, reconciliation, and validation.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges. #LI-JC1

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