Senior SAP Warehouse Test Lead

A very senior, hands-on Test Lead with strong SAP warehousing and distribution centre experience, capable of leading QA for a complex multi-site CSNX rollout while maintaining close alignment with operational and technical stakeholders.

Cape Town - Office attendance is required twice per week, with additional onsite participation where required for key rollout, testing or stakeholder activities

The Client requires a very senior Test Lead with strong warehousing and SAP warehouse testing experience to support the rollout of CSNX across its distribution centres. The role requires an experienced QA professional who can lead testing activities within a complex warehouse and distribution environment while remaining hands-on in the day-to-day delivery.

The successful resource will work closely with The Client's business, SAP, warehouse and delivery stakeholders to ensure that each rollout is supported by appropriate test planning, coverage, execution, defect management and quality reporting. Practical experience testing warehouse processes and understanding the operational impact of system changes within a distribution centre environment will be critical.

• Lead and coordinate QA activities supporting the CSNX rollout to The Client's distribution centres.
• Define and maintain the test approach, test plan, scope, coverage, entry and exit criteria for each rollout or implementation phase.
• Apply SAP warehousing experience to identify high-risk business processes, integration points, data dependencies and operational scenarios requiring focused testing.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to translate warehouse processes and solution changes into practical end-to-end test scenarios.
• Provide hands-on support with test analysis, test design, execution, defect investigation and retesting where required.
• Coordinate System Integration Testing, regression testing and business/UAT activities as applicable to the rollout.
• Ensure critical warehouse processes are adequately validated across relevant upstream and downstream integrations.
• Drive defect management and triage, ensuring issues are clearly documented, prioritised, assigned and progressed to resolution.
• Identify and
  ** escalate
  * * QA risks, blockers, environment constraints and data issues early enough to protect rollout timelines.
• Provide clear test progress, quality status, defect and risk reporting to project and senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with distribution centre operations, business SMEs, SAP functional and technical teams, and other delivery partners.
• Capture lessons learned from each rollout and continuously improve the QA approach for subsequent distribution centres.

• Extensive senior-level software testing / Quality Assurance experience, including experience operating as a Test Lead on complex enterprise programmes.
• Strong practical SAP warehousing testing experience within warehouse, logistics or distribution centre environments.
• Proven understanding of end-to-end warehouse processes and the operational dependencies associated with distribution centre systems.
• Experience supporting SAP-related implementations, migrations, upgrades or rollouts where warehousing forms a significant part of the business process landscape.
• Strong test planning, scenario design, execution management, defect management and quality reporting capability.
• Ability to identify business-critical risks and ensure test coverage is aligned to operational impact rather than only functional requirements.
• Experience working across integrated systems and validating end-to-end process flows and interfaces.
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