🚀 SAP TESTING EXPERT – ENGLISH – 100% REMOTE EU
Join a dynamic team within the Directorate-General for Budget, supporting the rollout and validation of SUMMA, the European Commission’s new corporate financial system built on SAP S/4HANA. As part of the User Service Management (USM) unit, you'll contribute to the testing and quality assurance of critical financial applications used across over 70 EU entities, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and seamless migration from legacy systems.
📋 Description of the tasks:
🔧 Provision of 2nd Level Support: Deliver 2nd level application support for SUMMA, handling different clusters.
🧠 SAP Functional Modules expertise and guidance: The USM team members use their knowledge in SAP functional modules, particularly FI, MM, CO, PS, SD, PM, AA, and associated business processes to support users.
🕵️ Pre-analysis of technical issues: When and where necessary, perform a pre-analysis of issues from a technical perspective, including debugging of customized solutions.
🧪 Functional testing: Define and conduct functional tests for incoming requests to replicate potential problems.
📦 Release management: Administrative follow-up of system change requests, including planning transports with the business manager, IT, and infrastructure team. From the list of requirements, the team drafts and compiles a release note and ensures its integrity leveraging the appropriate tools in the SAP installation.
🔁 Regression testing: At every new release, the team executes a series of regression tests, in what is called the IT1+IT2 cycle.
* In IT1, the team tests the newly introduced flows or the existing processes that are impacted by a new release with a superuser that has all authorizations, to ensure that the changed process is not breaking production.
* In IT2, the team coordinates with key users to test the whole process with the appropriate business roles, to spot potential issues with authorizations and assess the impacts on the user experience.
* When the processes are consolidated, the team also develops test script automations using Selenium.
* 🛠️ Technical problem identification: Understand the technical nature of user-reported issues, identifying use case scenarios where problems arise. Some ABAP debugging is sometimes necessary.
* 🗂️ Documentation: The team documents and elaborates on system change requests/issues, collaborating with the Helpdesk and the Onboarding, Training and Customer support team to improve the knowledge base. The team also collects technical background information from users to aid in future issues resolution. Furthermore, best practices and procedures are documented for the USM team.
* 🎥 Meeting participation through MS Teams: Actively participate in user, service, and project meetings to ensure smooth communication and issue resolution.
Requirements:
🌍 Work Environment and Conditions
🗣️ Unit BUDG.R.3 works both in French and English languages.
💻 The consultant will work full-time and will not work on the contracting authorities’ premises.
🖥️ Infrastructure: The European Commission (EC) will ensure that the consultant can work on a dedicated PC compatible with EC standards.
📌 Nature of the Tasks
📝 Definition of test plans.
🧪 Develop and prioritize test cases, create test data, test harnesses and automation scripts.
🎯 Construction of test scenarios and scripts.
⚙️ Execute (manually or automatically) the test cases and record the outcome of tests execution.
🐞 Report incidents (bugs) and follow up.
📑 Write the test summary report for the stakeholders' use.
📦 Release management and Quality Assurance.
🧠 Knowledge and Skills (4 years of experience)
✅ Experience in functional and acceptance testing of web or financial applications.
📊 Must have analytical and reporting skills.
📈 Good knowledge about the software project process.
💰 Basic knowledge of financial and bookkeeping concepts.
🛠️ Good knowledge of IT tools used in the office environment.
🌐 Good knowledge of written/spoken English and/or French.
🗣️ Good communication skills (spoken and written presentations and drafting of reports).
🎯 Specific Knowledge and Skills (2 years of experience)
In addition to the "Knowledge and Skills", the following:
🔹 Knowledge of functional modules in SAP (MM, FI, CO, FM, AA [Asset Accounting], PM [Plant Maintenance], PS, SD) and their associated business processes (preferably in S/4HANA).
🔹Knowledge of an agile development methodology (e.g., SAP Activate, SAFe, RUP).
🔹Knowledge of SAP testing tools:
• Solution Manager Testing functionalities knowledge.
• SAP CATT expertise.
🔹 Working knowledge of Fiori.
🔹 Working knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language).
🔹 Expertise in functional testing of Web UIs with Selenium.
🎁 Benefits:
✨ Opportunity to contribute to a high-impact project within the European Commission
🌍 Work 100% remotely from anywhere in the EU
💼 Long-term collaboration and professional development
🤝 Dynamic and collaborative work environment
🚀 Join us and take your career to the next level!