Description
The consultant will be part of the PMO Department and will reports to IT Supply Chain Project Manager
Job description
The consultant will be primary responsible for:
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During the Blueprinting phase, finalizing the testing strategy & approach in coordination with the SAP Program and the Organizational Change management & training initiatives. Additionally support the selection of relevant Automated Testing related tools and techniques.
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In subsequent Build & Test phases (Realization), support, track, and manage development & execution of Test plans (using SAP Solution Manager), templates, tools, and related materials
Mandatory Fields
Experience:
- Operational Test Management Experience within large scale SAP projects ideally in the Chemical/Industrial areas
- Experience through full SAP life cycle experience (System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing, Co-existence testing, User Acceptance Testing)
- Experience with the Coordination and Organization of large international groups of International Testers for User Acceptance tests
- Experience in International SAP Projects
- Good experience of SAP modules, more focus on Supply Chain related0 (SD,MM, PM, SCM, TM, APO, etc- bit also including FICO integration).
- Good experience with SOLMAN, STWB SOLAR_EVAL and test reporting tools
Profile:
- Strong communication skills since much interaction with senior management/project teams/stakeholders
- Proactive and able to deal with intense testing periods and able to keep a cool head when things start going wrong
- A strong Leader/Manager profile who can organize large international teams and lead large groups of people for UAT
- Able to Manage and Coordinate large international groups of Super Users for User Acceptance tests
- Fluent in English (Spoken & Written)
- Experience working together with System integrators
- Can follow and implement methods, procedures and directives provided by SAP Program Office
- Willing for travel - if required
- Meets deadlines, doing whatever it takes
Tasks for the Test Manager:
- Support SAP Program Test Architect with definition, implementation and configuration of test strategy and tools
- Managing the testing of business requirements in various phases of testing in the SAP SUPPLY CHAIN project
- Planning and overseeing testing, review of test conditions, test scripts and test scenarios for the various business requirements.
- Interacting with functional team and technical team to understand schedule dependencies, resolve cross-team issues, and ensure testing milestones are met.
- Interacting with business and external contacts (eg Legacy application users and leads) to identify/understand external activities and support required during the interface testing.
- Together with Tech. Arch team - making sure that complete test environment is built before testing starts. Finalizing the instance/client in different Servers for every test phase.
- Identifying the test phase requirement for the standard and custom object developments.
- Managing resources in the Test virtual organization and planning the capacity
- Ensuring sign-off on all test plan deliverables and test closure memos
- Providing status to Project Manager
- Creation of test plans and test packages
- Coordination of test document (test scripts)
- Coordination of test execution
- Responsible for reporting daily Management Progress Test and Defect Reporting
- Follow-up Defect Escalation with support organization
- Daily following up and tracking of test progress with Testers within the organization
- The Yara IT Pan-European Test Manager will work with the designated System Integrator (SI) and have primary focus on these test types
- Regression, Co-Existence Testing, Retrofit, Performance, & User Acceptance Testing
- Test Tool Configurations (Solution Manager/Test Workbench)
- While the SI will have primary responsibility for these test types, it will be a highly coordinated and interrelated activity:
- Unit Testing
- Functional
- Interface Testing
- Roles and Authorizations
- Integration/System testing
Tools Experience:
- SOLMAN experience and SAP Test Workbench and creation of test plans, defect tracking and packages reporting tools
- Experience with an Automated test tools (eg eCATT, HPQC/HP ALM, Worksoft Certify )
- SharePoint 2013
- Good experience with MS Office, especially Excel/PowerPoint for creation of test daily status reports