Senior/Test Lead SAP S4 Hana Fico/Finance Testing

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced SAP S/4HANA QA Test Lead / Functional Test Analyst to lead functional and end-to-end testing across SAP S/4HANA Core Finance & ETS/Billing. The role requires strong hands-on SAP functional knowledge, business-process understanding and experience managing testing across complex, integrated enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and coordinate testing activities across SAP S/4HANA Finance and ETS.
• Lead test planning, impact assessment, test-scenario identification, test preparation, execution, defect management, and QA sign-off.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, smoke, upgrade, and defect-retesting activities.
• Validate critical SAP Finance processes covering:
• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Bank Accounting
• Asset Accounting
• Controlling (CO)
• Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
• Treasury
• Tax and Expenses
• Acquire-to-Retire
• Work in Progress (WIP) and Billing
• Validate ETS business processes, including project setup, project lifecycle, customer-project stages, staffing, work packages, time recording, billing, and connected-system integrations.
• Review business requirements, functional specifications, change requests, release notes, and impact assessments to determine the appropriate testing scope.
• Develop and maintain reusable functional and regression test packs aligned with business processes and role-based access.
• Coordinate test-data preparation and manage dependencies across Finance, business, technical, integration, and vendor teams.
• Identify, document, prioritize and track defects through resolution and closure.
• Assess defect impact, regression risk, business criticality and release readiness.
• Provide clear testing progress, risk, defect, and quality-gate reporting to business and technology stakeholders.

Key Skills:

• Strong hands-on functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance and ETS.
• Practical experience testing SAP Finance processes, particularly GL, AP, AR, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, CO, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Expenses, Acquire-to-Retire, and WIP/Billing.
• Strong understanding of integrated SAP business processes and cross-functional dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience in functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, smoke, upgrade, and defect-retesting activities.
• Experience developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, traceability, and test-completion reports.
• Strong defect-management and root-cause-analysis capability.
• Experience supporting SAP release readiness, quality gates, QA sign-off.
• Ability to work collaboratively with business users, SAP functional consultants, developers, integration teams, product owners and third-party vendors.
• Strong stakeholder communication, risk-management, analytical, and reporting skills.
• Experience with test-management and defect-tracking tools such as Jira and Zephyr Scale is desirable.

Preferred Profile:

• Significant experience in SAP S/4HANA functional testing within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong Finance domain expertise combined with hands-on testing capability.
• Ability to independently analyse requirements and translate them into comprehensive positive, negative, boundary, integration and role-based test scenarios.
• Experience leading parallel SAP releases, upgrades, enhancements, and business-critical testing streams.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive testing from impact assessment through final QA sign-off.