SAP HCM / Payroll Test Lead

Role overview Lead testing for an SAP HCM and payroll implementation, coordinating functional, technical, conversion, and business teams from test planning through deployment readiness. A major focus is payroll parallel testing: running comparable payroll cycles in legacy and target systems, investigating differences, and giving decision-makers evidence about production readiness.

Responsibilities - Define the test strategy, scope, schedule, governance, and entry and exit criteria. - Coordinate functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, conversion, and payroll-specific testing across teams. - Oversee test scenarios, scripts, data, expected results, and traceability to requirements. - Plan parallel payroll cycles, including populations, data needs, reconciliation methods, and acceptance criteria. - Lead side-by-side payroll comparisons and analyze differences in gross-to-net results, earnings, deductions, taxes, and contributions. - Manage defect triage, variance resolution, risks, dependencies, progress updates, and readiness reporting.

Requirements - Four or more years leading testing for SAP HCM or SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll implementations. - Demonstrated experience planning and leading payroll parallel testing. - Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll processing and payroll results. - Experience reconciling legacy and target payroll outputs and distinguishing expected differences from defects. - Background managing test cycles, regression testing, defect triage, and readiness assessments. - Ability to coordinate business, functional, technical, and third-party teams, with awareness of dependencies across HR data, time, benefits, integrations, conversions, and downstream processes. - U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Benefits and work setup The listing provides a location-dependent base pay range of $120,400–$295,900 for specified U.S. states and the District of Columbia. It notes that compensation depends on factors such as location, skills, role, and experience, and that benefits are available.