SAS SME - Test Management
Must-have:DataSeniorLead
Your tasks
Description
- Define the overall test strategy, scope, approach, estimates, and execution plan.
- Establish testing entry and exit criteria across all test phases.
- Lead SIT, UAT, End-to-End, Regression, and production verification testing.
- Manage testing across SAS processing, source systems, data warehouses, Finance Data Marts, General Ledger, and reporting layers.
- Ensure complete coverage of financial calculations, transformations, aggregations, reconciliations, and reporting controls.
- Coordinate test-data preparation and environment readiness.
- Manage test execution, progress tracking, defects, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Lead defect-triage meetings and drive timely resolution of critical and high-priority defects.
- Coordinate with Finance, Business, Business Analysts, Developers, Data Engineers, Architects, Operations, and Vendors.
- Track testing KPIs, defect metrics, execution progress, and quality trends.
- Provide clear status reporting to project governance and senior stakeholders.
- Manage onsite and offshore test teams and ensure delivery accountability.
- Support UAT planning, business-user coordination, and sign-off.
- Assess release readiness and provide go-live recommendations.
- Support deployment, production verification, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Drive continuous improvement through automation, reusable test assets, and standardized data-validation approaches.
Requirements
Must have
- Strong experience in Finance, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, or Data Warehouse testing.
- Experience managing SAS, ETL, data migration, reconciliation, and report-validation testing.
- Proven experience managing SIT, UAT, End-to-End, Regression, and production verification testing.
- Strong understanding of source-to-target validation, transformation rules, aggregation, and financial reconciliation.
Good to have
- Experience managing test resources, schedules, risks, dependencies, defects, and quality metrics.
- Strong stakeholder, vendor, and senior-management communication skills.
- Experience working with onsite and offshore testing teams.