Test Manager

More than 22 years of international experience in IT, Test, Release and Quality Management across highly regulated industries including Pharma, Banking and Insurance

Extensive expertise in leading global SAP S/4HANA and SuccessFactors transformation projects, coordinating international teams and managing complex end-to-end testing activities

Strong background in stakeholder management, cross functional collaboration and governance, ensuring smooth communication between business, IT and external partners throughout the project lifecycle

Was placed as a Global HR Test & Quality Manager with best references via K-Recruiting

Planning of SuccessFactors modules in S/4HANA, management and coordination of all regional and global test activities (e.g. functional, acceptance, system, integration and user payroll) for Japan, Europe and the USA

Monitoring all test and project processes for RCM, ONB, EC, COMP, Time & Attendance

Career Site, Content & Data Hub

Leadership of the global test and project team

Creation of concepts

Ensuring fulfillment of the specified requirements through the test tool (qTest), assignment of work packages

Review of fulfillment of audit topics

Know-how transfer to workgroup leads in the development of the test strategy and test methodology

Global point of contact for various interfaces for project and test

Interface owner for CRM and S/4

Definition of the global test strategy including timeline and milestones

Preparation of the tests for the template (FIT, I-Test, UAT), provision of a central test and project repository

Coordination with stakeholders for the provision of local business experts for test creation

Head of defect management and deputy to the test manager for the S/4HANA implementation for Germany and Europe

Steering and monitoring of defect processes and change management in the modules (SD, MM, EWM, FICO)

Budget and staff planning

Implementation of cutover topics in various areas, leading and coordinating sub-project leads and defect managers

Business analysis and quality assurance of existing and new requirements

Application of CI/CD

Review of the test automation team

Close cooperation with development companies

Independent release planning and management of more than 15 international banks in application management

Close cooperation with various specialist departments (regulation, instant payment, coordination and communication of changes, incidents (online payment)

Data and defect management with internal and external stakeholders

Discussion of the strategic direction of release management

Sprint planning, business analyst (existing requirements in payment transactions) with testers

Head of the entire test and quality department

Sprint planning, responsible for test and quality of demands

Change, data and improvements per release, in coordination with the systems workstream lead as well as the systems PMO

Defining and implementing an end-to-end quality process in the demand/change delivery lifecycle, budget and cost planning

Setup of a test and QA report and regular delivery of the report to program management and program director

Ensuring the test environment

Creation of the test meeting schedule with accompanying measures such as environment utilization

Test progress development of the individual applications in payment transactions

Escalation processes in the event of network problems

Test case creation

Evaluation of banking processes

Capture of test strategy

KPI reports

Test documentation

Budget and cost planning