SAP Quality Assurance Lead
SAP Quality Assurance Leads help employers keep SAP delivery controlled, evidenced and ready for key decisions. They bring practical QA leadership across quality gates, test governance, defect trends, evidence review, release readiness, risk reporting, documentation standards and go-live confidence.
What does a SAP Quality Assurance Lead do?
An SAP Quality Assurance Lead leads quality assurance activity across SAP delivery, working with programme leaders, test managers, PMO teams, workstream leads, data leads, change leads, security teams and implementation partners.
The role is commonly used across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, RISE with SAP, rollout and transformation programmes where employers need stronger delivery discipline, credible test evidence, clear quality criteria and practical challenge before major milestones or go-live decisions.
When businesses hire SAP Quality Assurance Leads
- Leading SAP quality assurance across implementation, migration, rollout or optimisation programmes
- Reviewing quality gates, test evidence, defect position, release readiness, documentation standards and delivery risks
- Checking whether workstreams have credible quality criteria, ownership, sign-offs, remediation actions and escalation routes
- Supporting go-live assurance, release confidence, steering committee reporting and post-go-live quality review activity
- Adding QA leadership to SAP S/4HANA transformation, ECC change, RISE with SAP or global template rollout
Typical responsibilities
- Lead SAP QA activity across quality gates, test governance, evidence reviews, defect reporting and release readiness
- Review test completion, defect trends, risk position, data readiness, change readiness, cutover evidence and support handover
- Assess whether quality criteria, approvals, documentation, test evidence and milestone decision packs are complete and credible
- Work with programme leaders, PMO teams, workstream leads, testers, data teams, change teams and implementation partners
- Track QA findings, defects, risks, actions, ownership, remediation progress and unresolved quality concerns
- Report quality status clearly for steering committees, programme boards, test governance forums and senior stakeholders
- Help leaders make better decisions on delivery quality, readiness, risk, release confidence and go-live suitability
Key skills to look for
- SAP quality assurance leadership experience
- Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA, ECC, SAP Activate, quality gates and delivery controls
- Knowledge of test governance, defect management, evidence review, release readiness, RAID, auditability and programme reporting
- Experience with SAP Cloud ALM, Solution Manager, SAP test tools, regulated environments or large-scale ERP programmes where relevant
- Ability to challenge programme teams, suppliers and senior stakeholders constructively
- Clear judgement on evidence quality, delivery risk, defect severity, release readiness and practical remediation