THE OPPORTUNITY

The role resides in the Quality Assurance and Test team and is positioned within the SAP Squad, reporting into the SAP QA and Test Manager.  This is both a lead and hands on position and the purpose of the role is to help ensure quality outcomes that are aligned with our business strategy, specifically focussing on Success Factors, SAP S4HANA and integrated interfaces for DLA Piper’s Finance and HR systems.

Given this is a senior technical QA role, you will bring a high level of experience in all activities associated with the Quality Assurance and Test Lifecycle, with relevant and up to date testing techniques and tool knowledge.  Experience will be across SAP ecosystems, and include a deep proficiency in test automation (including the Tricentis Tosca ecosystem), which is critical to us supporting quality given the rate of change.

The role is responsible for championing quality, representing the needs and expectations of the business at all points and taking an appropriate approach to assurance to enable successful change.  In addition to technical expertise, fostering meaningful relationships, influencing effectively and contributing to a world class culture is key.

• Ensure optimal approach to assurance and testing is taken
• Ensure rapid delivery is supported through test automation, test tools and best practises
• Ensure quality needs and expectations are met, including functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensuring stakeholders have access to relevant quality information when needed, to support effective decision making

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The opportunity offers empowerment and autonomy, whilst providing a committed and supportive network, aligned in our values, with a strong sense of team.

Responsibilities include:

• QA & Test Lifecycle – Leading and contributing effectively at all levels of the quality lifecycle (including planning, design, management, execution and reporting) across the SAP and integrated landscape
• Informing & Aligning on Strategy & Approach – Supporting the development of test strategy & approach; aligning with best practises in all associated activities to support successful change & release 
• Tools & Techniques – Offering & developing subject matter expertise in relevant methods, tools and techniques appropriate to SAP landscape, to evaluate quality
• Test Automation – Taking an automation first approach; developing automation framework, leading and contributing to the creation & maintenance of our test automation framework & scripts / library for SAP
• Traceability & Reporting - Creating traceability records from requirements through to test results & sharing progress.
• Stakeholder Management – Effectively engaging with all stakeholders, (including IT, business, internal & 3rd parties), to achieve successful outcomes
• Continual Improvement – Driving continued increased success; sharing lessons & contributing to QA & Test team and SAP squad overall maturity

Attributes:

• Relationships, people & impact - Excellent communication & strong EQ; influencing for success
• Proactive approach – Self-led; seeking & creating opportunities to make a difference
• Problem solving -  Effective collaboration, innovation & being bold
• Trusted advisor - Specialist & technical experience; advice & insight relevant to our world; researching & presenting
• Automation – Competent in scripting, CI/CD pipeline, execution & maintenance
• Agile and DevOps – Fluent in both; promoting & demonstrating best practises
• Team – Sharing knowledge and supporting others
• Assurance – Championing and assuring quality at all levels of the software / product delivery lifecycle
• Testing – Proficient in all areas of the test lifecycle (including planning, test design, execution, defect management, traceability, supporting UAT)

ABOUT YOU

Must haves:

• Previous senior level experience (demonstrating aforementioned attributes) in SAP environments, including SAP change lifecycle and release processes
• Experience in all levels of quality lifecycle
• Strong test automation & CI/CD background
• Proficient in automation tooling relevant to SAP & developing scripts (API & UI level)
• Experience working with high number of complex integrations
• Experience of working closely with IT, business and 3rd party teams
• An excellent eye for detail, clear and structured in approach and communications
• Fluent & effective communication of complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Solution focussed and positive attitude to challenges
• Collaboration and negotiation skills
• Expertise in testing techniques used to execute tests of all application components
• Non-Functional test experience, particularly performance testing

Desirables:

• SAP test automation tools – Tosca test automation suite or similar
• Performance test tools – J-Meter, BlazeMeter (or similar)
• Test management tools – Service Now, Jira, xRay for Jira
• Relevant industry recognised qualifications
• ITIL v3

ABOUT US

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

OUR VALUES

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do.  We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work. 

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

We support anyone with a disability or long term health condition to ensure they have the opportunity to perform at their best. If you have not done so already, please let us know if you require any support so we can make the right adjustments and considerations should they be required.

AGILE WORKING

We know that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

PRE ENGAGEMENT SCREENING

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits, we may conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction.