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SAP Program Manager, Quality & Testing Lead

Posted: 10/05/2026 Industry: IT Business Systems Job Number: 8211

Job Description

SAP S/4HANA Quality & Testing Program Lead – Fashion Transformation
Hybrid / Remote with Periodic Travel to New Jersey
CornerStone Technology Talent Services

CornerStone Technology Talent Services is seeking an accomplished SAP S/4HANA Quality & Testing Program Lead to provide strategic leadership for the quality assurance and testing workstream of a large-scale global SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation.

This is a senior program leadership opportunity for someone who has successfully built and led enterprise SAP testing organizations across complex transformation programs. The ideal candidate combines deep SAP delivery experience with strong quality engineering, testing governance, executive communication, and cross-functional program leadership.

We are particularly interested in professionals who have supported Fashion, Apparel, Retail, Consumer Products, CPG, or Manufacturing environments, where complex order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, supply chain, merchandising, inventory, finance, integrations, and high transaction volumes create significant testing complexity.
What You’ll Lead
You will own the overall Quality and Testing strategy across the SAP transformation, ensuring business processes, integrations, data, applications, and technical components are fully validated before production deployment.

You will serve as both a delivery leader and trusted advisor, working across business leadership, SAP functional teams, technical teams, integration partners, testing organizations, and executive stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end SAP Quality Assurance and Testing program across a global ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation.
  • Develop and govern the enterprise testing strategy, methodology, standards, schedules, entry/exit criteria, and release-readiness framework.
  • Lead planning and execution across:
    • System Integration Testing (SIT)
    • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
    • End-to-End Business Process Testing
    • Regression Testing
    • Integration Testing
    • Performance and Volume Testing
    • Cutover and Deployment Validation
  • Establish traceability between business requirements, SAP configurations, integrations, test scenarios, test cases, defects, and acceptance criteria.
  • Coordinate testing across SAP functional workstreams, business teams, integration platforms, data migration teams, third-party applications, and external partners.
  • Lead distributed testing teams and drive accountability across internal teams, consulting partners, system integrators, and testing vendors.
  • Establish and manage testing governance, KPIs, dashboards, defect metrics, quality gates, and executive-level reporting.
  • Lead defect triage and prioritization while ensuring critical issues receive appropriate ownership, escalation, and resolution.
  • Identify quality risks, testing gaps, cross-functional dependencies, and program threats before they impact major milestones.
  • Conduct readiness assessments and provide fact-based recommendations regarding deployment, cutover, and production readiness.
  • Partner with program leadership to ensure testing activities remain aligned with the integrated program plan and critical path.
  • Present quality status, risks, trends, decisions, and recommendations to senior executives and steering committees.
  • Drive continuous improvement across testing processes, automation opportunities, governance, and overall delivery quality.
What We’re Looking For SAP Transformation Leadership
  • 10+ years of experience supporting complex enterprise technology or SAP transformation programs.
  • Significant experience leading SAP testing, quality assurance, or program delivery within large implementations.
  • Direct experience supporting SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA migrations or transformations.
  • Strong understanding of SAP implementation lifecycles, environments, transports, integrations, data conversion, cutover, and production readiness.
  • Experience operating within complex multi-workstream SAP programs involving business, functional, technical, integration, and data teams.
Testing & Quality Expertise
Deep knowledge of enterprise testing strategy and execution, including:
  • SIT
  • UAT
  • End-to-End Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Defect Management
  • Test Data Management
  • Requirements Traceability
  • Release Readiness
  • Cutover Validation

You should be comfortable establishing a testing organization from the strategic level while still understanding the mechanics necessary to determine whether execution is actually on track.
Program & Governance Leadership
  • Proven ability to lead large, distributed, cross-functional teams without relying solely on direct authority.
  • Strong experience managing dependencies across multiple SAP workstreams and external implementation partners.
  • Ability to establish governance structures, decision frameworks, escalation processes, and measurable quality standards.
  • Experience translating complex testing information into meaningful executive-level business risk discussions.
  • Strong risk management and problem-solving capabilities.
Executive Presence
This position requires someone who can confidently interact with senior business and technology leadership.

Successful candidates will be able to:
  • Challenge assumptions professionally.
  • Escalate quality concerns with supporting evidence.
  • Communicate technical risk in business terms.
  • Influence decisions across organizations.
  • Drive accountability across internal teams and consulting partners.
  • Present recommendations clearly to executive and steering-committee audiences.
Industry Experience
Experience within one or more of the following environments is strongly preferred:
  • Fashion
  • Apparel
  • Retail
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Packaged Goods
  • Manufacturing

Candidates with direct experience supporting SAP Fashion or complex retail/apparel transformations will be especially relevant.
Particularly Valuable Experience
We are especially interested in candidates who have experience with several of the following:
  • SAP S/4HANA transformation programs
  • SAP Fashion / Retail environments
  • Large global SAP implementations
  • Multi-system integration landscapes
  • SAP data migration and reconciliation testing
  • Automated regression testing
  • Enterprise test-management platforms
  • Test automation frameworks
  • Complex supply-chain and inventory processes
  • High-volume transactional environments
  • Global or distributed delivery models
  • System integrator and vendor management
  • Executive steering committees
  • Go-live readiness assessments
  • SAP cutover and hypercare programs
The Profile That Will Stand Out
The strongest candidate will not simply be a testing manager who has worked around SAP.

We are looking for someone who has owned quality for a major SAP transformation, understands how business processes move across multiple SAP modules and integrated systems, can determine where program risk is developing, and has the executive presence to drive corrective action.

You should be equally comfortable discussing a defect backlog with a testing organization, challenging a functional team on inadequate coverage, evaluating release readiness with program leadership, and presenting quality risk to executives.
Work Environment
This opportunity supports a distributed U.S.-based transformation program operating primarily within Eastern Time business hours.

The role offers a combination of remote and hybrid work with periodic travel to New Jersey based on major program milestones, workshops, testing cycles, and deployment activities.
Why CornerStone Technology Talent Services
CornerStone Technology Talent Services connects experienced technology professionals with high-impact enterprise transformation initiatives across the United States.

Our technology recruiting team understands that senior SAP professionals are more than collections of keywords. We focus on understanding the scope of the programs you have led, the complexity of the environments you have supported, the business outcomes you have influenced, and where your experience can make the greatest impact.

If you have led quality and testing across a major SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation and are comfortable operating at both the program-delivery and executive-advisory levels, we would like to connect.

Meet Your Recruiter

John Briggs
Technical Recruiting Manager

With over 12 years in IT talent acquisition, John Briggs is a business leader specializing in workforce strategy, technical hiring, and market-driven talent solutions. As a Technical Recruiting Manager at CornerStone TTS, John has been instrumental in optimizing hiring frameworks, expanding technical talent pipelines, and driving workforce planning initiatives. His expertise spans application development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and full-cycle IT hiring. John works closely with business leaders and technical teams to align hiring with emerging trends, leverage AI-driven recruitment technology, and refine scalable hiring strategies. Known for his ability to bridge technical expertise with organizational needs, John cultivates trusted relationships that enhance retention and drive strategic placements. His ability to integrate data-driven talent acquisition with consultative workforce solutions makes him a key driver of TTS’s success, ensuring companies secure specialized talent that aligns with long-term business objectives.

 

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