SAP Testing and Automation Lead, Ford Energy

The Opportunity

As the Testing & Automation Engineer, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, you will be the quality and automation backbone of Ford Energy’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud environment, reporting to the SAP Implementation & Integration Lead. This is a critical, hands-on individual-contributor role responsible for building and maintaining the automated testing framework that gives the organization the flexibility to move fast without breaking things. You will design and execute test automation strategy using Tricentis Tosca, ensure every release meets a high bar for quality, and manage the regression and validation testing required to keep Ford Energy current through frequent S/4HANA Public Cloud upgrade cycles.

This role is foundational to enabling a lean, high-velocity SAP organization that can adopt new capability quickly and confidently.

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Automation Strategy & Tooling

Own the design, build, and continuous improvement of the automated testing framework across Ford Energy’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud landscape.

Build automation: Design, script, and maintain automated test suites using Tricentis Tosca for core business processes, integrations, and configuration changes.

Expand coverage: Continuously identify and close gaps in automated regression coverage as new processes, integrations, and modules are onboarded.

Maintain the framework: Keep the test automation framework current with SAP’s object model and public cloud release changes so tests remain reliable and low-maintenance.

2. Release Quality & Upgrade Management

Serve as the quality gatekeeper for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud releases, ensuring changes and upgrades are validated before they reach production.

Plan test cycles: Define and execute test plans for quarterly SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud upgrades, patches, and feature releases.

Manage upgrade validation: Coordinate regression testing across impacted business processes for each public cloud release, minimizing disruption and downtime.

Drive release sign-off: Provide clear, data-backed go/no-go recommendations to leadership based on test results and defect severity.

Own defect management: Track, triage, and drive resolution of defects identified during testing cycles in partnership with functional and technical teams.

3. Quality Governance & Continuous Improvement

Establish the testing standards, metrics, and best practices that make quality a repeatable, scalable discipline rather than a one-off event.

Define standards: Establish test case design, coverage, and documentation standards for the SAP organization.

Report on quality: Maintain dashboards and metrics on test coverage, pass/fail rates, and defect trends to give leadership visibility into release health.

Improve efficiency: Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing effort and cycle time through smarter automation and reusable test assets.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner across the SAP delivery team and business stakeholders to ensure testing keeps pace with the speed of change.

Coordinate with functional teams: Work with SAP functional and technical teams to understand change scope and translate it into test scenarios.

Support business validation: Enable and guide business users through user acceptance testing (UAT) as needed.

Partner with SI/vendor teams: Coordinate testing activities with system integrator or managed services partners supporting the SAP landscape.

Position Qualifications and Key Capabilities

Required

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience: 5–8 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or test automation, with meaningful experience testing SAP environments (commensurate with GSR 8 level).

Tosca Expertise: Hands-on, production experience designing and maintaining automated test scripts using Tricentis Tosca.

SAP Testing Knowledge: Strong understanding of SAP business processes and the ability to translate functional requirements into effective test scenarios.

SAP CALM Experience / Understanding how to utilize SAP CALM's project tracking capabilities to manage the testing phases of S/4HANA Public Cloud's strict semi-annual upgrades and continuous feature deployments.

Release Management: Experience planning and executing regression testing for system upgrades, patches, or major releases.

Analytical Rigor: Strong defect management and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to prioritize based on business risk.

Communication: Ability to clearly communicate test results, risks, and quality recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Experience: Direct experience testing or supporting SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, including familiarity with its standardized upgrade cadence and "clean core" extensibility model.

SAP CALM / API experience: Practical knowledge of linking Tosca and SAP Cloud ALM via APIs, including managing client IDs, secret tokens, and landscape endpoints—to ensure seamless, bi-directional data flow

Broader Automation Toolset: Familiarity with additional test automation or CI/CD tooling beyond Tosca.

Integration Testing: Experience testing integrations between SAP and third-party or custom applications.

Startup Mindset: Comfort building test processes and standards from scratch within a larger corporate parent.

Manufacturing/Energy Exposure: Familiarity with manufacturing, energy, or other complex operational environments.

Key Attributes

A meticulous, quality-obsessed individual contributor who takes ownership of outcomes — proactive in identifying risk, disciplined in test execution, and comfortable being the last line of defense before a release goes live.

Location & Travel: U.S. with domestic travel

Company

As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems, this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.

Why Ford Energy?

At Ford Energy, you have the backing of an industrial manufacturing powerhouse with the agility of a dedicated energy startup offering industry leading technology. We offer a competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses, Ford vehicle discounts, and the opportunity to shape the energy strategy of one of the world's most iconic brands.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.     
 

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

Company: As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems, this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.

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