SAP Business Analyst & Tester

Position: SAP Business Analyst & Tester
Location: Durham, NC (Onsite Role)
Visa-H1B,& USC

Overview
The SAP Business Analyst & Tester connects business stakeholders, Enterprise Transformation, IT, Quality & Compliance, and implementation partners to deliver SAP and enterprise application initiatives. The role owns requirements gathering and leads testing across SAP S/4HANA, integrated applications, and reporting and analytics platforms. It partners with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Customer Service, and Commercial teams to ensure solutions meet business, operational, and regulatory (SOX, CSV, GxP) requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements

• Lead requirements gathering through workshops, interviews, and process reviews. Translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Document requirements, process maps, user stories, use cases, functional specs, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices.
• Analyze current- and future-state processes to improve efficiency, compliance, and user experience.
• Support S/4HANA upgrades, enhancements, integrations, and reporting across all business functions.
• Work with SAP functional and technical teams to evaluate options, assess impacts, and guide design decisions.
• Support portfolio planning, business cases, project intake, change control, and governance.
• Develop SOPs, training materials, and user guides. Support data governance, KPIs, and master data initiatives.

Testing, Validation & Quality

• Own test strategy, plans, schedules, scenarios, and scripts.
• Coordinate and execute SIT, UAT, regression, end-to-end, and validation testing.
• Lead defect management: logging, prioritization, tracking, retesting, and closure.
• Validate functionality, integrations, reports, KPIs, and data accuracy against requirements, including reconciliation and data quality reviews.
• Maintain CSV, GxP, SOX, and SDLC documentation and audit evidence.
• Support deployment, cutover, hypercare, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Drive continuous improvement of testing and quality practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• 5+ years as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, SAP Analyst, or Tester on enterprise applications.
• Hands-on SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA experience, including implementations, upgrades, migrations, and enterprise reporting.
• Working knowledge of integrated SAP processes across FICO, MM, SD, PP, and QM.
• Proven experience planning and executing SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Strong grasp of SDLC, change management, and release management.
• Knowledge of CSV, GxP, SOX, IT and audit/compliance requirements.
• Experience with Jira, SAP ALM, Tricentis, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of reporting, analytics, data governance, and master data management.
• Strong facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred

• Regulated industry experience in Medical Device, Life Sciences, Pharma, or Biotech (strongly preferred).
• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, ISTQB, SAP, or Lean Six Sigma.