SAP Test Manager, SIT & UAT

Cognizant

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Foster City, CA
Salary: $81,000–$130,000 / yr
Posted: 7 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · SAP Test Manager, SIT & UAT

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As a Senior SAP Test Manager – SIT & UAT, you will join the program delivery team to define and govern enterprise testing standards for a complex SAP transformation program. You will lead System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing by establishing methodologies, quality standards, and readiness criteria across various delivery models. Your daily responsibilities include governing test design, requirements traceability, defect lifecycles, and reporting metrics while coaching business users to validate end-to-end processes. You will utilize tools such as OpenText Application Lifecycle Management and Jira to manage test repositories and defect tracking. The role requires expertise in software testing, quality engineering, and risk-based testing to provide evidence-based insights for release decisions, ensuring high-quality integration and business acceptance within a large-scale, integrated technology environment.

Skills

SAP SIT UAT Quality Engineering Test Governance Jira Test Automation Requirements Traceability Defect Management Agile

What you'll do

Define and govern SIT and UAT strategies, methodologies, quality standards, and readiness criteria.
Lead SIT readiness reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations for release-readiness and sign-off decisions.
Govern test design standards, requirements-to-test traceability, risk-based testing, and regression suite selection.
Establish and manage the defect lifecycle, including triage, root cause analysis, and service-level expectations.
Define and maintain SIT and UAT metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards.
Coordinate UAT activities and coach business users to validate end-to-end business processes.
Partner with delivery teams to improve automation suitability and sustainable regression coverage.
Use trend analysis and lessons learned to drive measurable improvements in testing practices and governance.

What we're looking for

12+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, UAT, business process testing, or SAP application delivery.
Significant experience in enterprise testing, quality engineering, SIT leadership, or test governance for complex technology programs.
Strong knowledge of test strategy, planning, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, regression management, and defect management.
Experience establishing and governing SIT and UAT standards, readiness checkpoints, governance metrics, KPIs, and leadership reporting.
Experience using enterprise test management and defect-tracking tools, preferably OpenText ALM and Jira (preferred).
Ability to interpret quality data, identify risk signals, and communicate clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, decision-framing, communication, and risk-escalation skills.
Relevant certifications in software testing, quality engineering, Agile delivery, project management, or SAP technologies (preferred).