SAP Test Manager

As a SAP Test Manager in Bracknell, you will lead SAP testing across Technology work within the Business Services industry, helping change activity move forward with clear, reliable test outcomes. You will plan and coordinate testing so teams can identify issues early and keep delivery on track.

Client Details

The organisation operates in the Business Services industry in Bracknell.

Description

• Manage UAT and Regression testing across multiple domains.
• Validate SIT deliverables from delivery vendors
• Define, document, and own the project test plans, approach, and governance framework across projects and releases,
• Develop and maintain detailed test plans, schedules, and resourcing models, ensuring alignment with overall delivery and release objectives.
• Establish and enforce testing standards, frameworks, methodologies, and tools, including test automation where appropriate.
• Ensure clear entry/exit criteria are agreed and adhered to for all test phases; provide go/no-go recommendations based on results and risk.
• Lead risk-based testing, identifying, managing, and mitigating quality risks throughout the lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with development teams, architects, business analysts, product owners, release managers, and other stakeholders to ensure testing is integrated into the delivery pipeline.
• Validate integration architecture mainly between SAP and third-party platforms, ensuring testability is built into system design
• Assess and challenge architectural decisions that may compromise system stability, resilience, or long-term maintainability, acting as a technical authority who can push back on poor design choices.
• Design and execute resilience testing to ensure primary systems maintain functionality when ancillary systems fail or experience degradation, including verification of failover mechanisms, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation patterns
• Analyse functional and non-functional requirements for completeness, testability, and alignment with system goals, identifying and articulating gaps in requirements including performance, scalability, reliability, and usability considerations
• Challenge ambiguous or incomplete specifications before development begins and ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Provide high-quality test documentation, including strategies, plans, test cases, results, and closure reports, tailored for both technical and senior business audiences.
• Manage defect lifecycle, prioritization, and resolution, ensuring issues are tracked and closed effectively.
• Oversee test environment requirements, readiness, and availability, coordinating with infrastructure and operations teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing practices, tools, automation coverage, and reporting.
• Act as a single point of accountability for test delivery within the programme, ensuring alignment to release and business outcomes.
• Serve as the guardian of system stability, ensuring software systems and integrations are production-ready before hardware and vehicle-level testing begins
• Guide business test users and promote a culture of quality across the programme.

Profile

A successful 'SAP Test Manager' should have:

Required

• ISTQB or ISEB Foundation Level certification, or an equivalent recognised software testing qualification.
• Demonstrable SAP test management experience, including ownership of SIT, UAT and regression testing.
• Proven experience of leading testing within a complex software development and systems integration environment.
• Demonstrable experience of defining and implementing test strategies, plans, governance frameworks and quality standards.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, including Agile and Waterfall delivery, and how testing is integrated within them.
• Experience of assessing functional and non-functional requirements for completeness, testability and traceability.
• Knowledge of resilience principles and experience of designing or overseeing resilience testing scenarios.
• Experience of managing defects, test environments, quality risks and release-readiness reporting.
• Experience of test automation tools, frameworks and practices, with the ability to identify proportionate opportunities for automation.
• Ability to produce clear, concise test documentation and communicate complex technical risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead and coordinate internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders within a matrix environment, using sound judgement and constructive challenge.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, application development and systems integration.

Desirable

• Experience of testing connected car services or other software used within an automotive environment.
• Knowledge of security, performance and compliance testing.
• Experience of working within a European or international business environment involving multiple suppliers.
• Proficiency in modern test management, automation and reporting tools.
• Experience of working in a customer-facing or business-partnering role.

Job Offer

• Temporary contract for intially 6 months.
• Daily rate of £500-550 a day Inside IR35, dependent on the level of experience.
• Role based in Bracknell - 2 days a week in the office required.

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