Quality advocate

• Quality advocate who will partner with business and technical teams to build comprehensive test plans for large cross-functional systems projects and programs, with particular focus on UAT
• Inspire others to fight for excellence, even under competing priorities and pressures
• Effectively lead meetings ranging from 2 to 60+ participants, and communicate resulting actions
• Identify opportunities to leverage automation for test prep and execution
• Proactively look for risks (technological, organizational, political) and identify appropriate mitigation plans
• Seek expertise and involve the right experts for the best testing outcomes
• Drive schedule, planning meetings and activities for UAT preparation and execution
• Facilitate identification of test scenarios and ensure requirements traceability
• Foster healthy debate and seek to understand multiple perspectives
• Estimate resource requirements to complete testing, and ensure realistic plans are in place
• Ensure the test environments and required data are available to support testing
• Utilize analytical skills to investigate and drive resolution of issues found in UAT activities
• Report progress on UAT activities and issues to the project team and to management
• Approach problems flexibly, and be willing to adapt and modify your approach, without compromising on the outcome.
• Participate in testing transformation activities by driving forward innovative approaches and methodologies

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ to 12+ years experience leading testing/QA, with emphasis on planning and managing cross-functional testing
• Experience with different testing methodologies and driving a quality mindset
• Experience establishing QA program structure for optimal return-on-investment, and coordinating and delegating cross-project initiatives
• Ability to develop technical expertise and understanding of system interdependencies, and their impacts on testing plans
• Experience with system and/or software architecture models
• Ability to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levels
• Proficient at balancing multiple efforts at a time
• Excellent listening, communication, leadership and presentation skills
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal partners
• Exemplify flexible thinking, curiosity, self-motivation, dedication to quality, focus on the details, and a positive perspective
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity to clarify objectives and execution plans
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP functional experience, and experience migrating from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4 HANA is beneficial
• Experience with Logistics & Supply Chain testing, as well as freight carriers or third-party logistics providers, is a plus
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Quality Assurance certification (ISTQB, ASQ, etc) and/or PMI certification is highly desirable