QA- Kinaxis & Supply Chain Planning

Position: QA Resource Requirements Kinaxis & Supply Chain Planning

Location:

Plano, TX | Duration: 12 months

• Proven experience validating Kinaxis Rapid Response implementations across demand, supply, inventory, and control tower modules.
• Ability to design and execute end-to-end test scenarios covering planning cycles, exception management, and what if simulations.
• Strong understanding of Kinaxis data models, planning logic, and configuration dependencies to support accurate test coverage.

• Ability to validate:
  • Statistical forecasting logic and model outputs
  • Demand data maintenance processes
  • Customer and internal input workflows
• Capability to assess the impact of forecast accuracy on:
  • Inventory levels
  • Manufacturing and transportation costs
  • Warehousing costs
  • Customer service performance
• Experience testing forecast overrides, consensus demand, and approval workflows.

• Validation experience in:
  • Tiered inventory strategies and safety stock logic
  • Inventory cost optimization aligned with service level targets
  • Supply plans aligned to corporate and financial objectives
• Ability to test supply network, material planning, and capacity planning models across tactical and strategic horizons.
• Exposure to global inventory management scenarios, including multi site and multi region planning.

• Experience validating pharmaceutical demand and supply planning processes, including:
  • Product lifecycle considerations
  • Regulatory and lot/batch driven planning constraints
• Understanding of quality critical planning impacts relevant to Pharma environments.

• Ability to validate planning metrics, KPIs, and dashboards, including those supporting:
  • S&OP / IBP processes
  • Customer service performance
  • Inventory and cost optimization
• Skill in translating complex optimization outputs into clear, testable business outcomes.

• Ability to define and execute:
  • Test strategies (SIT, UAT, regression, performance)
  • Traceability between business requirements, test cases, and defects
• Experience establishing QA standards and best practices for supply chain planning programs.

• Capability to assess current supply planning processes and systems and identify:
  • Gaps
  • Risk areas
  • Opportunities for quality and performance improvement
• Experience supporting process, people, and system validation during transformations.

• Strong collaboration skills to work with:
  • Business stakeholders
  • Functional planners
  • IT and implementation partners
• Ability to manage testing detail while maintaining end to end supply chain context.

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills for test data creation, scenario analysis, and defect root cause analysis.
• Critical thinking and structured problem solving capabilities.
• High attention to detail with the ability to link test outcomes to overall supply chain performance.