SAP HCM / Payroll Test Lead

The role

The SAP HCM / Payroll Test Lead oversees the planning, coordination, and execution of testing for an SAP SuccessFactors Payroll implementation. This role leads payroll parallel testing, manages test cycles, and ensures end-to-end readiness for deployment.

What you will do

• Develop and manage the overall test strategy, plan, scope, schedule, and entry/exit criteria
• Coordinate testing across payroll functional, HCM functional, technical, integration, conversion, and business teams
• Establish and manage functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and payroll-specific test cycles
• Oversee creation of test scenarios, test scripts, test data, expected results, and requirements traceability
• Monitor test progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and overall readiness
• Facilitate defect triage and coordinate issue resolution across functional and technical teams
• Develop and lead the payroll parallel testing strategy for SAP Payroll / Employee Central Payroll
• Define parallel test cycles, scope, employee populations, data requirements, reconciliation approach, and acceptance criteria
• Coordinate payroll execution in legacy and new SAP payroll systems for side-by-side comparison
• Lead reconciliation and variance analysis across payroll results

Required qualifications

• 4+ years leading testing for SAP HCM and/or SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementations
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading payroll parallel testing
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processing and payroll results
• Experience reconciling payroll differences between legacy and target systems
• Ability to distinguish expected differences from true defects
• Experience managing multiple test cycles, defect triage, regression testing, and readiness assessments
• Strong understanding of dependencies across payroll, HR data, time, benefits, integrations, conversions, and downstream processes
• Experience coordinating functional, technical, business, and third-party teams through complex testing activities
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance
• Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States

Benefits

• Certifications
• Industry training
• Hands-on experience

Before you apply

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance
• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.