ERP S4 HANA Project Management Test Lead (Remote)

RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Test Lead for their ERP S4 HANA Project Management team. The role involves developing test strategies, overseeing test activities, and ensuring compliance with SAP best practices while collaborating with various stakeholders to meet project goals.

Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans
• Oversee the creation of test cases (automated and manual)
• Coordinate unit, integration, regression and UAT testing phases
• Define test scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with functional and technical teams
• Manage test environments, data preparation, and test execution schedules
• Lead defect triage meetings, ensuring timely resolution and retesting
• Ensure compliance with SAP best practices and organizational QA standards
• Provide status reports and metrics to stakeholders and project leadership
• Collaborate with business users, consultants, and offshore teams to ensure test coverage and readiness
• Drive test progress to adhere to overall project timeline
• Resource management and allocation, understanding test team workload, potential resource constraints, and ensure optimal resource utilization throughout the lifecycle of the test phase
• Proactive risk management: identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor potential risks with real-time alerts for critical issues
• Communicate expectations and instill accountability in test team members
• Resolve conflicts, promote work sharing, and motivate teams toward common goals
• Manage multiple test activities, tasks and resources through effective organization prioritization, and time management practices to meet program objectives
• Additional responsibilities include documentation, stakeholder communication, and identifying areas for improvement to enhance quality and efficiency of testing activities

Requirements:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience OR in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with test management tools such as qTest, ALM or similar tools
• Experience in cross-functional testing coordination across different workstreams, including management of onsite-offshore testing teams and alignment of deliverables
• Prior involvement in SAP upgrade or implementation projects
• Experience with multiple methodologies including waterfall and agile Scrum methodology
• Ability to travel ~ 25%-50% to other major RTX US sites (ex. Farmington, Richardson, Cedar Rapids, and Charlotte)
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in a matrix and team environment with ability to collaborate across lines of business process and digital
• Effectively manage multiple activities concurrently
• Work productively in a fast-paced, demanding environment (virtually as well as in-person)
• Guide and influence at multiple levels of the organization to include executive leadership