SAP Release & Test Management Consultant

About the Role

Join an international organisation and take ownership of SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), with a focus on test management, release management and transport governance.

You’ll help establish consistent standards, improve quality assurance and ensure SAP changes are tested, approved and deployed safely across complex system landscapes. Working closely with IT, business and project teams, you’ll play a key role in supporting stable go-lives and continuous process improvement.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve the SAP test and release strategy, including test automation, regression testing and quality assurance.

• Coordinate SAP changes, test cycles, transport releases, release windows and production deployments across multiple systems.

• Advise development, service and project teams on SAP change and release processes throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support requirements gathering, project transitions into operations, cutover activities and post-go-live hypercare.

• Monitor testing, release and change progress using KPIs, status reports and management reporting.

• Act as a quality gate, ensuring compliance with standards, documentation requirements, naming conventions, release criteria and audit requirements.

• Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities to improve SAP ALM processes, tools and governance.

Your Profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics or a comparable qualification.

• Strong experience in the SAP environment, ideally in SAP ALM, test management, change management, release management or transport management.

• Understanding of SAP system landscapes, development and customising processes, and controlled production deployments.

• Experience coordinating changes, tests, releases or transports, with a strong focus on quality, risk management and dependencies.

• Familiarity with tools such as SAP Solution Manager, ChaRM, SAP Cloud ALM, Jira or Tricentis Tosca is advantageous.

• Structured, reliable and quality-conscious working style, with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders and management.

• Experience in an industrial environment, S/4HANA transformations or international projects is beneficial.

• Very good German and good English skills.

• Enjoyment of developing standards, improving processes and coordinating stakeholders towards shared quality and release objectives.