Sr. Manager, Testing & Cutover

The Sr. Manager, Testing & Cutover plays a critical leadership role within Supply Chain & Operations (SC&O) Systems, leading the global testing strategy for complex SAP S/4HANA releases, non-SAP ERP implementations, and DevOps, CI/CD pipeline deployments. This role leads global, cross-functional teams and partners closely with business, IT, quality, compliance, data, and deployment stakeholders to ensure disciplined testing planning, execution, and release readiness. The position is responsible for establishing enterprise-wide testing standards, governance, tools, and SDLC deliverables while driving consistency, transparency, and quality across releases, workstreams, integrated systems, and ecosystem applications. Success in this role requires a strategic leader who can standardize methodology, strengthen release discipline, and accelerate delivery through automation, AI-enabled insights, and risk-based practices in a highly regulated, global environment. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define and lead the global testing strategy for complex SAP S/4HANA releases, non-SAP ERP implementations, and transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to program objectives, milestones, and go-live readiness. 

• Lead global, cross-functional teams across business, IT, quality, compliance, data, security, and deployment to drive integrated test planning, execution, issue resolution, and release readiness across ERP and DevOps workstreams 

• Establish and govern enterprise-wide testing standards, methodologies, and controls, including scope management, entry and exit criteria, traceability, defect management, phase-gate approvals, and auditable evidence. 

• Own end-to-end test planning and execution across integration, end-to-end, business simulation, system integration, user acceptance, regression, and non-functional testing. 

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and oversee the implementation and maintenance of test automation frameworks.  

• Ensure comprehensive test coverage across SAP S/4HANA, non-SAP ERP platforms, connected systems, interfaces, data migration, reporting, and cross-system business processes. 

• Build and develop a high-performing global testing organization by defining the operating model, resource needs, and ways of working to support multiple releases. 

• Drive test automation and quality engineering strategies to improve speed, coverage, repeatability, and control across business-critical processes. 

• Leverage AI-enabled tools, automation, and analytics to improve test design, scripting, defect triage, root-cause analysis, risk identification, trend monitoring, and KPI-based decision-making. 

• Partner with technology and functional teams to implement scalable testing tools, automation frameworks, and reporting solutions that enhance efficiency, traceability, and auditability. 

• Establish testing KPIs, dashboards, and executive reporting to provide clear visibility into readiness, defect trends, risk exposure, coverage, automation effectiveness, and release status. 

• Identify and manage testing risks, issues, dependencies, and change impacts, escalating critical decisions and remediation actions as needed. 

• Ensure testing activities and deliverables comply with SDLC, validation, quality, and regulatory requirements, supported by complete documentation and auditable evidence. 

• Partner with cutover, deployment, and business readiness leaders to ensure testing outcomes support operational readiness, transition planning, and successful go-live execution. 

• Drive continuous improvement by standardizing best practices, incorporating lessons learned, and advancing automation, AI-enabled insights, and quality engineering across future releases. 

Qualifications 

Education 

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field. 

• Preferred: Master’s degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent). 

• Preferred: Additional academic concentration or formal training in Quality, Computer System Validation, Regulatory Compliance, Supply Chain Operations, or Program/Project Management is strongly valued. 

Experience and Skills 

• 8-10 years of experience leading testing, validation, release, or deployment activities within large-scale ERP or enterprise transformation programs, including significant SAP environments. 

• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end testing for complex SAP S/4HANA releases, non-SAP ERP implementations, or major enhancements across multiple workstreams, regions, and integrated systems. 

• Proven experience defining and governing global testing strategies, methodologies, controls, and entry/exit criteria across integration, end-to-end, business simulation, user acceptance, regression, and non-functional testing. 

• Strong knowledge of SDLC, test lifecycle management, defect management, release governance, and stage-gate readiness practices in large, matrixed programs. 

• Demonstrated leadership of global, cross-functional teams across business, IT, quality, compliance, security, data, and deployment functions. 

• Experience managing testing across integrated business processes, interfaces, data migration, reporting, and connected applications. 

• Hands-on experience implementing or scaling test management, defect tracking, workflow, and reporting processes using enterprise tools such as Jira and related testing platforms. 

• Demonstrated experience driving test automation strategy and adoption, including automated scripting, regression coverage, and repeatable execution aligned to business-critical processes. 

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-enabled tools, automation, and analytics to improve test design, scripting efficiency, defect analysis, risk identification, reporting, and decision-making. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk-management capabilities, with demonstrated success identifying, prioritizing, mitigating, and escalating issues and dependencies. 

• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and program risks into clear business implications and decisions. 

• Strong knowledge of DevOps Principles, CI/CD pipeline architecture, and test automation engineering. 

• Hands on experience with test management tools such as Jira/Xray, HP, ALM, Azure test plans or Zephyr.  

• Hands on experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, pytest, JUnit, or equivalent.  

• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance testing requirements (SOX, GxP). 

Preferred: 

• Experience in medical device, life sciences, or other highly regulated environments, with exposure to validation, audit readiness, electronic records, and regulatory compliance expectations. 

• Experience supporting global or multi-region SAP S/4HANA releases and non-SAP ERP deployments, including coordination across time zones, deployment waves, and regional business requirements. 

• Prior people leadership experience, including building, coaching, and developing high-performing testing or release teams in a matrixed environment. 

• Working knowledge of Computer System Validation (CSV), GxP, SOX, and audit-support requirements relevant to enterprise system deployments. 

• Experience with testing accelerators, automation frameworks, AI-enabled testing or analytics capabilities, and quality engineering practices that improve regression efficiency, traceability, and release confidence. 

• PMP, SAP, Agile, or software testing certifications such as ISTQB are a plus. 

• AWS/Azure DevOps certifications are a plus. 

• Familiarity with infastructure-as-code (Terraform) and containerized environments (Cocker, Kubernetes) in the context of testing. 

Other: 

• Travel: Up to 15–25%, primarily domestic with limited international travel. 

• Familiarity with enterprise test and delivery tools such as Jira and related test management, traceability, and reporting platforms is preferred. Experience using automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve test execution, defect triage, root-cause analysis, reporting, and decision support is highly desirable. 

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