Quality Assurance Lead (SAP S​/4HANA On

About Dokainish& Company

Since 2011,Dokainish& Company has been delivering world-class project management and project controls consultancy services. We specialize in working diligently and collaboratively with our clients to achieve long-lasting, impactful results acrossnumerousbusiness functions.

Our areas of expertise include Project Controls, Project Management, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Organizational Change Management, Enterprise Reporting, Estimating, Asset Management, and System Implementation for Capital Projects. We drawupondecades of project experience to deliver customized solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges.

We are currently seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Leadto join our high-performing, diverse, and innovative consulting team, supporting a large-scale SAP S/4

HANA implementation for a well-established client within the nuclear sector.

The Opportunity

The QA Lead will own the end-to-end test strategy and quality governance for a complex, regulated SAP S/4

HANA implementation.

The engagement is currently in the design phase, with user stories already drafted, so the immediate priority is toestablishthe testing approach, make requirements testable, and stand up the test data and integration testing foundations before build. A key early deliverable is to define the testing scope, approach, and resourcing model, including the number, seniority, and skill mix of QA automation engineers required. This assessment will form the basis for how the test team issubsequentlybuilt out, and the QA Lead will support the recruitment, technical screening, and onboarding of those engineers before leading and scaling the team.

The role combines this test strategy and governance leadership with hands-on ownership of theTricentis

Tosca automation strategy, defect management, and release readiness across integrated business systems. Beyond theinitialphase, the QA Lead continues to lead test execution through allsubsequentcycles, owns quality reporting into program governance, and holds accountability for the formal quality sign-off on test completion and platform release readiness at go-live. This is a client-side quality leadership role that includes oversight of testing performed by the systems integrator and delivery teams.

Location & Travel

This is a full-time, non-remote, in-office position based in Toronto, Ontario, with regular travel to client sites asrequiredwithin the GTA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the overall test strategy for the S/4
  
  HANA program, defining test phases (unit and string, system integration, user acceptance, regression, performance, and data migration and cutover validation), along with entry and exit criteria, environments, and governance.

• During design, review drafted user stories and requirements for testability, acceptance criteria quality, and coverage;establishandmaintainthe requirements traceability matrix linking user stories to test cases and defects.

• Define and own the test data management strategy, including provisioning of referentially consistent master and transactional data, refresh approach, and data masking or anonymization suitable for a regulated environment. Test data readiness is treated as a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought.

• Lead System Integration Testing across cross-module SAP processes and cross-system end-to-end business scenarios spanning integrated applications, APIs, and middleware.

• Plan and coordinate data migration validation and mock cutover rehearsals, including reconciliation testing between legacy and S/4
  
  HANA.

• Define the test automation strategy using
  
  Tricentis
  
  Tosca, including model-based and risk-based coverage, reusable components, and automation best practices; design andmaintainscalable, maintainable frameworks and build the regression baseline progressively across build waves.

• Lead automation across end-to-end SAP processes (S/4
  
  HANA, ECC, Fiori) and integrated applications, andmaintainthe suites for stability, execution speed, and clear, actionable reporting.

• Establish security, role, and authorization testing, including segregation-of-duties considerations, recognizing that Fiori-based results are role dependent.

• Plan performance, volume, and period-close and batch job testing on S/4
  
  HANA (HANA) under production-representative data volumes.

• Establish QA standards forrequirementsquality, acceptance criteria, testability, and traceability, and oversee defect management, including clear logging, reproducible steps, impact assessment, and root cause analysis support.

• Track and report on quality metrics, including automation coverage, defect leakage, pass rates, and release readiness indicators, and present quality status, risks, and readiness into program governance and steering forums,maintainingauditable test evidence appropriate toa regulated client.

• Own the quality gate for the program: define entry and exit criteria for each test phase, formally close out test phases, and provide the quality sign-off and go/no-go recommendation on test…