SAP Automation Architect – Tricentis Tosca

Experience: 12+ Years | Role: SAP Automation Architect / CoE Lead | Technology: Tricentis Tosca | Domain: SAP / Enterprise Applications

1. Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAP Automation Architect / CoE Lead with 8–10+ years of SAP testing and automation experience and strong hands-on expertise in Tricentis Tosca. The role will establish and lead the SAP Test Automation Center of Excellence (CoE), defining enterprise automation strategy, architecture, standards, governance, reusable frameworks, and roadmap across SAP and integrated applications.

The candidate will combine SAP functional knowledge, Tosca architecture, automation strategy, DevOps integration, and leadership to drive scalable automation and measurable quality improvements.

2. Key Responsibilities

SAP Automation Strategy & CoE

- Define and implement the SAP Test Automation Strategy, CoE roadmap, standards, and governance.
- Establish scalable, maintainable automation architecture and reusable frameworks.
- Identify and prioritize automation opportunities based on business value, risk, complexity, and ROI.
- Define automation KPIs, dashboards, quality metrics, and ROI measurement.
- Build reusable components, accelerators, templates, and an automation knowledge repository.
- Establish Tosca development, review, maintenance, execution, and continuous-improvement standards.
- Lead automation maturity and capability-building initiatives.

Tricentis Tosca Architecture

- Provide expert technical leadership and hands-on guidance in Tricentis Tosca.
- Design enterprise-scale Tosca automation solutions.
- Develop and govern Modules, TestCases, TestCase Templates, ExecutionLists, reusable components, Test Configuration Parameters, Test Data Services, Recovery Scenarios, and Distributed Execution.
- Define strategies for scalability, reusability, maintainability, execution optimization, and test-data management.
- Conduct Tosca architecture/design reviews and technical POCs.




- Evaluate new Tricentis capabilities and their applicability to the enterprise automation strategy.

SAP & End-to-End Business Processes

- Automate and validate SAP GUI, Fiori, Web, and Cloud applications.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC and multiple SAP modules such as:
- MM, SD, FI/CO, PP
- WM/EWM
- HCM / SuccessFactors
- Automate end-to-end business processes including P2P, O2C, R2R, Plan-to-Produce, Hire-to-Retire, Supply Chain, and Finance.
- Support SAP implementations, S/4HANA transformations, migrations, upgrades, rollouts, regression, integration, and release validation.

SAP & Non-SAP Integration Design automation across complete enterprise journeys, including SAP → API → Salesforce → Database → External Application → SAP.

Experience with

- REST/SOAP APIs and middleware
- Database validation and SQL
- Web and third-party applications
- File-based and enterprise integrations
- End-to-end data validation and reconciliation

3. DevOps, Test Management & Reporting

- Integrate Tosca automation into CI/CD pipelines and enterprise DevOps processes.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, scheduled regression, Distributed Execution, automated execution, and quality gates.
- Establish automated regression strategies and release-quality reporting.
- Experience with Tricentis qTest, Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM/Quality Center, or equivalent test-management platforms.
- Establish leadership dashboards covering:
- Automation and regression coverage
- Execution-time reduction
- Automation stability and pass/fail rate
- Defect leakage
- Maintenance effort
- Manual-effort reduction
- Automation ROI

4.



AI & Intelligent Automation Understand and evaluate emerging AI-driven testing capabilities, including:

- AI-assisted test creation and intelligent test generation
- Automated test maintenance / self-healing
- Risk-based testing
- Intelligent test-data generation
- Autonomous/agentic test automation
- AI-driven defect and quality analytics
- Modern Tricentis AI capabilities

5. Leadership & CoE Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor, and develop SAP Tosca automation engineers.
- Define team structure, roles, responsibilities, skills, and training programs.
- Establish Tosca onboarding, development, review, and governance processes.
- Collaborate with SAP functional teams, developers, QA, DevOps, business, release management, and senior leadership.
- Present automation strategy, roadmap, risks, progress, and ROI to stakeholders.
- Support estimation, resource planning, project planning, and capability development.
- Act as the SME for SAP Test Automation and Tricentis Tosca.

6. Required Skills

Must Have

- 8–10+ years of SAP testing and automation experience.
- Strong hands-on Tricentis Tosca expertise and framework/architecture experience.
- Strong SAP GUI and Fiori automation experience.
- SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC experience.
- Robust understanding of end-to-end SAP business processes and multiple SAP modules.
- Enterprise SAP/non-SAP integration testing experience.
- API, database, and SQL testing expertise.
- CI/CD and DevOps integration experience.
- Strong regression automation, governance, standards, and framework experience.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred

- Tricentis Tosca certification.
- Tricentis qTest and Tosca Data Integrity.
- SAP S/4HANA transformation experience.
- Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Git.
- SAP Cloud ALM / Solution Manager.
- AI-driven/intelligent test automation.
- Experience establishing or managing an Automation CoE.

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