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A Snapshot of Your Day

As the Test Strategy & Operations Management Lead for User Acceptance Test (UAT) (f/m/d), you start your day aligning with internal stakeholders and external IT partners to further develop the S/4 test factory setup for User Acceptance Testing.

You oversee the integration of multiple rollout projects within the S/4 program, ensuring a scalable, efficient, and well-governed operating model. Leading a global team of IT and Business Transformation experts, you monitor testing activities across rollout projects and ensure transparency regarding progress, risks, and performance.

You drive stakeholder alignment, analyze key performance metrics, and continuously improve processes through automation and AI-driven solutions. At the end of the day, you consolidate results, prepare performance reports, and define next steps to strengthen the factory setup.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Establish and scale the S/4 test factory for the UAT scope, combining internal employees and external IT partners to enable industrialized SAP rollouts.
• Lead and govern all UAT test-related activities across the global rollout program.
• Manage the Performance Management on UAT testing scope with clear KPIs and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Drive automation and AI-enabled testing approaches for UAT across all rollout projects to increase efficiency and quality.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and service levels for UAT scope to ensure timely and complete delivery.
• Ensure transparency through structured reporting, governance, and stakeholder alignment.

What you bring

• Proven experience in managing complex IT environments or transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems (software, hardware, databases).
• Experience in large-scale rollout initiatives (preferably SAP/S/4HANA).
• Knowledge of IT operations, governance, and service management structures.
• Experience to work with external IT partners and related performance frameworks.
• Experience leading cross-functional, international teams.
• Business fluent English; German is an advantage.
• Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About the Team

You are responsible for setting up and managing all aspects of the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the Siemens Energy SAP S/4HANA rollout project. You have full leadership from UAT strategy development to its operational execution. In this role you leverage the setup of the S4E Program with assigned team members across all rollout projects as well as our external IT delivery partner. Your work enables us to scale the testing process to an industrialized level including automation and AI technologies that allow efficient and effective UAT test management for 10+ in-parallel rollout projects.

You manage all stakeholders related to UAT testing from across our solution factory, data migration factory, change factory to contribute towards our rollout projects and its business stakeholders. You steer the performance of the external IT service delivery partner for UAT scope and ensure in-time, in-quality, audit proof documented testing as part of the rollout projects.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our distributed team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards/Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive work culture and a healthy work- life balance
• Flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Competitive total rewards package
• Flexible benefits and savings programs
• Parental leave
• Profit sharing
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives