Principal Specialist, ERP S4 HANA Project Management Test Lead (Remote)

RTX is a global aerospace and defense company undertaking a major enterprise transformation initiative to harmonize processes and deploy SAP S/4HANA across its businesses. The Principal Specialist, ERP S4 HANA Project Management Test Lead will develop test strategies, plans, and cases; coordinate testing phases; manage defects, risks, resources, and environments; and report progress to stakeholders. The role collaborates with functional teams, business users, consultants, and offshore teams to ensure testing readiness and quality.

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
• Ability to travel ~ 25%-50% to other major RTX US sites (ex. Farmington, Richardson, Cedar Rapids, and Charlotte)

Requirements:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience OR in absence of a degree, 9 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
• 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