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QE Lead – (S/4) HANA

Gemini Consulting ServicesUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 22 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead quality engineering for critical enterprise platforms, including SAP S/4 HANA, and shape the future of quality strategy. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned QE professional eager to drive impactful testing initiatives and ensure robust release readiness within a collaborative environment. Apply now to leverage your expertise and contribute to a leading consulting firm.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

QE Lead – Enterprise Platforms (S/4)
Cincinnati,OH- Hybrid
Quality Engineering Lead
 
Role Description
Position Summary
Lead Quality Engineering for Enterprise Platforms, including SAP S/4 and related enterprise systems, by driving
quality strategy, governance, test planning, automation, release readiness, and continuous improvement. The
role acts as the quality owner for the Enterprise Platform portfolio, ensuring alignment with QE CoE standards,
quality metrics, governance expectations, and modern engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Own and drive the Quality Engineering strategy for the Enterprise Platform portfolio, including SAP S/4 and
associated enterprise applications.
• Lead all testing activities across initiatives, enhancements, releases, upgrades, and transformation
programs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, plans, schedules, resource forecasts, and execution
roadmaps.
• Serve as the primary quality leader and trusted advisor for Enterprise Platform initiatives.
• Establish and enforce QE governance processes, standards, quality gates, and release readiness
expectations across the portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with QE CoE processes, methodologies, templates, metrics, and reporting standards.
• Define release readiness criteria and lead release quality reviews in partnership with delivery and release
teams.
• Provide objective Go/No-Go recommendations based on test completion, defect risk, system stability,
business readiness, and overall quality health.
• Own defect triage, prioritization, escalation, and closure processes across multiple delivery teams.
• Drive production defect escape analysis, root cause identification, corrective actions, and continuous
improvement initiatives.
• Ensure traceability across requirements, test coverage, defects, risks, and release deliverables.
• Build strong stakeholder partnerships across business, technology, delivery, and vendor teams to drive
accountability and quality outcomes.
• Provide proactive communication, risk escalation, quality status updates, and leadership visibility into
release readiness and portfolio quality health.
• Establish and maintain quality dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and executive-level metrics for leadership
reporting.
• Track and report on automation coverage, defect leakage, release quality, test execution progress,
requirements coverage, and overall quality trends.
• Drive adoption of shift-left testing practices and early quality engagement throughout the SDLC.
• Lead automation strategy and execution across Enterprise Platform applications, integrations, APIs,
regression suites, and critical business processes.
• Champion scalable automation solutions that improve efficiency, test coverage, reliability, reusability, and
release confidence.
• Partner with QE CoE teams to build reusable frameworks, standards, templates, governance assets, and
automation capabilities.
• Drive continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Implement automated quality gates and regression testing capabilities that support faster, safer, and more
predictable releases.
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• Evaluate and improve overall testing effectiveness, delivery predictability, defect prevention, and quality
maturity.
• Mentor QE engineers, guide vendor testing teams, and contribute to building enterprise quality engineering
capabilities.
• Support vendor governance and ensure external partners adhere to established QE standards, processes,
and delivery expectations.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled testing, intelligent automation, and emerging quality
engineering practices where appropriate.
 
Required Qualifications
• 15+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Test Management, or Software Quality
leadership roles.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience leading Quality Engineering teams, programs, or portfolios within large
enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP, enterprise platform, or business-critical application ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise-wide test strategies, governance models,
quality standards, and release readiness frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, SDLC, release management, and modern Quality
Engineering practices.
• Proven experience establishing quality metrics, KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, and executive-level
reporting.
• Strong experience with release readiness assessments, quality gates, and Go/No-Go decision-making.
• Experience leading defect prevention, defect triage, root cause analysis, production defect escape reviews,
and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience managing testing across complex integrations, business processes, vendor teams, and
enterprise platforms.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, drive accountability, manage risk, and establish quality as a shared
organizational responsibility.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building, scaling, and leading enterprise automation programs and reusable automation
frameworks.
• Proven experience implementing automation solutions that improve quality, efficiency, coverage, reliability,
and release confidence across large enterprise environments.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and modern DevOps
practices.
• Hands-on experience evaluating and adopting automation technologies, frameworks, and engineering best
practices.
• Tricentis Tosca experience is a plus but not required.
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing, intelligent automation, and next-generation quality engineering practices

Skills

Agile
ERP
Compliance
Continuous Improvement
Root Cause Analysis
SAP
Triage
Waterfall

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