- Strong understanding of supply chain operations processes.

- Well-versed in multiple styles of Release & Change Management processes, including Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative.

- Minimum 5 years for managing and executing system integration testing or user acceptance testing for complex, highly integrated projects.

- Minimum 5 years in a lead position with experience in SAP implementations.

- S4HANA experience is very desirable.

- Experience in software test automation tools and frameworks such as Worksoft, Tosca, UFT, Selenium, etc.

- Solid understanding of project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels.

- Ability to facilitate Brainstorming sessions to gather lessons learned from implementation with the business and BPR, and the Information Technology group (IS&T).

- Excellent teamwork skills and ability to influence others, and ability to quickly establish trust and credibility.

- Strong level of customer focus and attention to detail.

- Working knowledge and familiarity with industry best practices in software testing.

- High level of professionalism, energy, and sense of urgency to make things happen.

- Problem-solving skills are a must.

Job Description :

- Facilitate the successful release of system enhancements / new functionalities from Development to Production through effective testing.

- Management of end-to-end test activities, including test strategy, test process management, team coordination, and communication.

- Lead cross-functional team to support each release project testing.

- Develop test plans, facilitate the creation of test cases, and test scripts on multiple projects of varying sizes.

- Determine test automation approach and scope for the project effort.

- Mobilize and manage Test automation Engineers to complete the project test automation.

- Create, maintain, and report testing metrics, including SLAs and KPIs.

- Validate that user expectations are achieved during the testing process.

- Coordinate smoke testing.

- Facilitate triage calls and drive issues to resolution with IS&T and business partners to get closure on open issues during Test cycles.

- Continuously improve testing best practices and methods.

- Influence teams to make the right decisions on Go/No-Go exit criteria based on Test Cycle performance and risk mitigation.

- Stitch across the different functionality and facilitate end-to-end test scenario creation, manually or automatically.

- Resource Management & Overall Metrics management for the QSS team.

Additional Requirements :

- Exceptional project management skills with a maniacal attention to detail, and a proven ability to influence and collaborate horizontally and vertically.

- Experience working on projects for teams based globally.

- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment and multitasking.