Associate Principal - Package Implementation

Role description

Mandatory 5 days working from Bangalore Nielsen offcice only

Role Overview

The Test Validation Project Lead will work closely with and support the Project Meridian Finance Technology Domain Lead by coordinating all testing and validation activities across the program This is primarily a coordination and tracking role with proficient knowledge and experience in SAP Functional and testing space the individual will serve as the connective tissue between functional workstream teams the ABAPtechnical team business UAT participants and the PMO ensuring testing milestones are on track defects are being resolved and quality gates are met ahead of each wave golive Actual test execution is performed by the functional and business workstream teams

This is a highvisibility role The Lead will report directly to the Finance Technology Domain Lead and will compile and present testing progress and risk status to the Steering Committee on a regular cadence

Key Responsibilities

Planning Coordination

Coordinate and maintain the Test Plan for each wave in partnership with workstream teams covering multiple SIT cycles ITC1 ITC2 Security SIT UAT and Regression Testing milestones

Facilitate alignment on testing entry and exit criteria test data volume assumptions and environment readiness across all workstreams

Track and communicate testing activities against the overall program plan and wave deployment schedule

Coordinate the Security SIT cycle ensuring roles and authorizations are validated in QAS after functional configuration and before UAT entry

Reinforce testing principles across workstream teams businessdriven validation defect resolution before phase progression and formal signoff at each quality gate

CrossWorkstream Tracking Visibility

Track progress across all testing phases ITC1 ITC2 ITC3 for Waves 2 3 UAT Regression for each wave flagging risks and blockers to Finance Domain Lead

Monitor defect resolution rates across workstreams ensuring P1P2 defects are resolved before UAT entry 95 target and UAT pass rates meet the 98 threshold

Coordinate test data readiness across mock migration cycles ensuring data loads are aligned to testing phase requirements

Track external partner integration testing ITC3 for Waves 2 3 coordinating with Salesforce Bloomberg Ariba SuccessFactors and other thirdparty teams

Maintain and update the centralized testing tracker and defect log ensuring realtime visibility into test execution status open defects and wave readiness across all workstreams

Monitor regression testing activities to ensure global configuration changes do not impact the live US S4HANA instance

Governance Reporting

Compile and present testing progress statistics for Steering Committee updates and PMO reporting

Maintain the Testing RAID log tracking risks actions issues and decisions across all workstreams

Ensure all testing activities defects and signoffs are logged and traceable in JIRA as the single source of truth

Coordinate workstream and business signoff on Test Evidence documents and UAT Signoff at each phase milestone

Track quality gate readiness for each waves GoNoGo decision ensuring all criteria are met prior to production cutover

Stakeholder Coordination

Serve as the daytoday coordination point between Finance Technology Domain Lead and functional workstream teams FinanceFICO OTC P2P HRPayroll Security Analytics MDG

Coordinate with the Finance UAT team Users across R2R O2C P2P FALeaseProject to ensure UAT scripts are prepared reviewed and executed on schedule

Partner closely with workstream leads Platforms BASISSecurity RICEFW Data Migration OTC to align testing scope with development and migration readiness

Coordinate with the testing tool vendor Qyrus and testing consultants to track tool readiness and automation coverage

Support knowledge transfer activities to ensure workstream teams can independently manage testing cycles posthandover

Required Qualifications

15 years of experience in SAP testing coordination or test management with exposure to at least one fullcycle SAP S4HANA migration preferably in ECC to S4 migration

Solid understanding of SAP testing phases SITITC UAT Regression and quality gate criteria sufficient to track progress and identify risks

Familiarity with SAP test environments Dev QAS UATPreProd Production and the relationship between data migration mock loads and testing cycles

Strong understanding of defect management processes and entryexit criteria for each testing phase

Proven ability to coordinate across multiple crossfunctional teams including IT business users and thirdparty vendors in a large complex program environment

Strong project management and communication skills comfortable presenting to senior leadership and Steering Committees

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Project Planning, SAP TESTING