Oracle Retail MFCS Testing Lead

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing activities for Oracle Retail MFCS implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and integrations.
• Define and own the overall test strategy, test plan, scope, estimates, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Lead functional, system integration, regression, end-to-end, and business acceptance testing activities.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, functional consultants, developers, and integration teams to understand requirements and define test scenarios.
• Review business requirements and functional specifications and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Provide strong Retail Merchandising domain expertise, particularly across:
  • Item and product management
  • Merchandise hierarchy
  • Suppliers and locations
  • Purchase orders
  • Invoice Matching
  • Transfers
  • Inventory management
  • Pricing
  • Costing
  • Stock ledger
  • Sales and inventory processes
  • Merchandising transactions and adjustments
• Validate end-to-end business flows across MFCS and downstream/upstream systems.
• Coordinate testing of integrations between MFCS and other Oracle Retail applications, POS, ERP, warehouse, e-commerce, and third-party systems.
• Identify critical business scenarios and ensure appropriate test coverage.
• Lead defect management, triage, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and resolution tracking.
• Work with technical teams to investigate integration, data, batch, and interface-related issues.
• Monitor test execution progress and provide regular status reports, metrics, risks, and issue escalations to stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate test data is available for functional and integration testing.
• Support UAT planning and execution and coordinate with business users.
• Mentor and guide the testing team and ensure adherence to testing standards and processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in test processes, automation opportunities, and overall quality assurance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7–12+ years of experience in software testing, preferably within the Retail domain.
• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Retail MFCS.
• Strong understanding of Retail Merchandising processes and business functions.
• Experience leading testing teams in large-scale Oracle Retail implementations or transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of MFCS functional flows, merchandising transactions, and integrations.
• Experience in System Integration Testing (SIT), End-to-End Testing, Regression Testing, and UAT.
• Good understanding of retail interfaces and data flows between MFCS and surrounding applications.
• Experience with defect management tools such as Jira, ALM, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in test planning, estimation, execution, reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with other Oracle Retail applications, such as:
  • Oracle Retail Merchandising ( ORMS) / MFCS
  • Oracle Retail Pricing  Management  (ORPM)/ RPCS  
  • Oracle Retail sales Audit ReSA / SACS
  • Oracle Retail Invoice Matching (ReIM) / ORICS
• Knowledge of Oracle Retail integration architecture.
• Experience with API, web service, and batch/interface testing.
• SQL knowledge for backend validation and data reconciliation.
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Exposure to Oracle Retail upgrades, cloud implementations, or migration projects.

Key Competencies

• Oracle Retail MFCS expertise
• Retail Merchandising domain knowledge
• Test Strategy & Planning
• SIT / E2E / Regression / UAT
• Integration Testing
• Defect Management
• Test Data Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Team Leadership
• Risk & Issue Management
• Strong communication and analytical skills