Your responsibilities
Test planning and governance
- Apply and continuously improve the LUCA end-to-end test strategy across assigned releases and rollout waves, covering unit support, system integration, end-to-end, regression, user acceptance and cutover-related validation.
- Develop integrated test plans that define scope, cycles, milestones, entry and exit criteria, environments, test data, responsibilities, dependencies and required evidence.
- Establish and operate consistent quality gates, governance routines, escalation paths, status reporting and readiness assessments in alignment with the overall LUCA Test Management team.
- Maintain transparent traceability from business requirements and process designs to test cases, executions, defects and acceptance evidence.
- Coordinate testing dependencies across LUCA process streams, SAP and non-SAP partner systems, migration activities, environments, interfaces and country organisations.
Test design, execution and defect management
- Work with Process Leads, Process Owners, solution architects, country teams and implementation partners to translate SAP Finance and SAP Ariba requirements into robust, prioritised end-to-end test scenarios.
- Challenge test scope and coverage from a business-process, control, integration and data perspective, ensuring that critical and high-risk scenarios are adequately represented.
- Coordinate test preparation and execution across distributed teams, including tester onboarding, script readiness, test-data availability, environment readiness, daily progress monitoring and evidence quality.
- Lead defect-management routines, ensure complete and consistent defect documentation, facilitate triage and prioritisation, and drive critical issues to timely resolution and retest.
- Provide concise reporting on execution progress, coverage, defect trends, blockers, residual risks and recommendations for test completion and go-live readiness.
System Integrator delivery management
- Define, agree and govern the SI test deliverables, responsibilities, milestones, quality expectations and acceptance criteria for each test phase and rollout wave.
- Hold the SI accountable for timely and complete preparation of test plans, test scenarios, scripts, test data requirements, execution evidence, defect analysis, status reporting and closure documentation within its scope.
- Review and challenge SI estimates, resource plans, test coverage and execution progress, ensuring that delivery commitments are realistic, transparent and aligned with LUCA milestones.
- Operate regular SI performance and delivery reviews focused on agreed outcomes, overdue actions, blockers, defect ageing, retest readiness and remediation plans.
- Ensure that SI-led testing is coordinated with METRO business teams, LUCA functional and technical teams, partner-system owners and country organisations, with clear handovers and no gaps in accountability.
- Escalate material SI delivery risks early, supported by evidence and a clear assessment of their impact on quality gates, UAT readiness and go-live decisions.
User Acceptance Testing management
- Own the end-to-end planning and management of the UAT exercise for assigned LUCA rollout waves, in close alignment with the overall LUCA Test Management team and country business leadership.
- Define the UAT scope, approach, schedule, entry and exit criteria, business-process coverage, tester organisation, environments, roles, authorisations, test data, evidence standards and sign-off process.
- Coordinate the nomination, onboarding and readiness of business testers and key users, ensuring that responsibilities, availability, scripts, data, tools and escalation channels are understood before execution starts.
- Ensure the SI and LUCA teams provide a stable, sufficiently tested solution for UAT, including completed prerequisite testing, resolved blocking defects, available interfaces and documented known limitations.
- Lead UAT execution governance through daily progress reviews, issue triage, defect prioritisation, retest coordination, coverage monitoring and transparent reporting to programme and country stakeholders.
- Drive formal UAT completion and business acceptance by consolidating results, open defects, workarounds, residual risks and sign-off evidence, without substituting for the accountable business approvers.
Tools and test automation
- Use Zephyr within the agreed Jira-based testing approach to support structured test-case management, test cycles, execution tracking, traceability, reporting and audit evidence.
- Help establish reusable test assets and consistent naming, status and evidence standards across LUCA rollout waves.
- Contribute to the LUCA test-automation strategy and identify suitable regression and end-to-end scenarios for automation based on risk, repeatability, stability and business value.
- Coordinate UiPath-based SAP test-automation activities with functional teams and automation specialists, including prioritisation, test-data needs, execution scheduling, result review and maintenance requirements.
- Promote the reuse of automated tests across SAP GUI, SAP Fiori and connected business processes where this is supported by the agreed LUCA toolchain.
Stakeholder and delivery management
- Coordinate virtual and cross-functional testing teams across, LUCA central teams, country organisations and implementation partners.
- Facilitate test-planning, execution, defect and readiness forums with a clear focus on decisions, ownership, delivery commitments and unresolved risks.
- Escalate quality risks early and communicate their business, process, technology and schedule impacts to the appropriate programme stakeholders.
- Support business readiness and UAT by ensuring that testers understand their responsibilities, scripts, test data, evidence expectations and issue-reporting process.
- Capture lessons learned and improve test methods, templates, reporting and automation practices across successive rollout waves.