Duration: 12 Months

Job description:

- Own independent test governance and readiness assurance across SIT, UAT-aligned gates, SIT2 and cutover.
- Challenge readiness claims across delivery teams, System Integrators and third parties while staying constructively independent.
- Own end to end QA gate assurance — from evidence validation to clear pass, conditional pass or blocker recommendations.
- 12-month contract with possibility to extend.
- This is a highly visible, critical role at the heart of go-live success—ensuring stability, security and business continuity during complex ERP transitions. You’ll operate in a safety-first, inclusive environment guided by care, courage and curiosity.
- If you’re an experienced SAP S/4HANA quality assurance lead who thrives in complex SAP transformations, we’d love to hear from you.

Position purpose

- Provide independent SAP S/4HANA quality assurance oversight of test governance and readiness, ensuring formal phase entry and exit decisions are supported by consistent controls, validated evidence and transparent reporting.
- The role challenges readiness claims, identifies quality gaps and helps ensure compliant, high-quality testing outcomes across regional teams.

Core accountabilities

- Maintain and apply the regional testing governance framework, readiness standards and quality controls in line with programme expectations.
- Govern formal regional test phase readiness and evidence for SIT, UAT-aligned assurance activities, SIT2, cutover rehearsal and hypercare gates.
- Provide independent oversight of regional test execution health, identifying and escalating risks, issues, quality gaps and control weaknesses.
- Ensure teams consolidate, validate and retain test artefacts and readiness evidence required to meet quality gates.
- Oversee regional defect management practices, including logging discipline, traceability, reporting quality, ageing, prioritisation and escalation.
- Review and interpret System Integrator testing and defect reports, highlighting trends, risks and evidence gaps for leadership decision-making.
- Govern regional use of test management tools, including qTest evidence, access provisioning dependencies and compliance issues where they affect testing governance.
- Partner with testing leaders, GPOs, delivery teams and System Integrators while maintaining an independent challenge position.




- Produce clear governance and readiness reporting that makes the actual regional position visible, including pass, conditional pass or blocker recommendations.

Key deliverables

- Regional QA gate readiness pack with evidence status, gaps, risks, decisions required and recommendation.
- Testing governance controls checklist covering artefacts, evidence, defects, reporting, tool usage and access dependencies.
- Independent readiness and quality findings register with owner, action, due date, severity and closure evidence.
- Defect governance assessment covering logging quality, traceability, ageing, trend commentary and escalation effectiveness.
- System Integrator report review summary highlighting trends, risks, control gaps and areas requiring leadership attention.
- qTest and test evidence compliance summary for regional gate decisions.
- Skills and experience
- Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA test governance frameworks, QA standards, controls and formal quality gate management.
- Experience supporting or coordinating test governance in complex delivery environments with several teams, phases or workstreams.
- Experience providing independent oversight across testing teams while constructively challenging delivery confidence.
- Strong understanding of defect management, testing metrics, traceability and evidence standards.
- Experience with test management tools, with qTest experience highly regarded.
- Solid judgement, critical thinking, documentation discipline and executive reporting capability.
- Collaborative approach that supports quality, compliance and psychological safety while still escalating material gaps.
- Must be bilingual (French & English). Additionally fluent in Spanish would be advantageous.
- Success measures
- Regional readiness decisions are based on validated evidence, not verbal assurance or optimistic reporting.
- Quality gaps, governance risks and defect trends are visible early enough for corrective action.
- Gate packs are clear, traceable and support leadership decision-making.




- Defect governance and test evidence standards are applied consistently across regional teams and third party cohorts.
- The role provides independent challenge without taking over test planning, execution or vendor management.
- Explicit exclusions
- Owning test planning, test scheduling or test execution.
- Managing testers or vendor delivery activity.
- Owning defects that belong to the defect tower, functional streams or delivery teams.
- Replacing PMO schedule governance or Tech Platform ownership of operational readiness.

About our Company: -

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.

Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.

“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer" and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply."

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Pay: $100.00 per hour

Experience:

- SAP S/4HANA QA: 5 years (required)
- SIT/UAT/Cutover: 5 years (required)
- Defect governance: 5 years (required)

Language:

- French (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Quality Assurance Lead (SAP S/4HANA) (Montreal)
🏢 22nd Century Technologies
📍 Montreal