SAP Tester / SAP Functional Tester

Position Overview

• Experienced SAP Tester with strong functional testing expertise in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP Materials Management (MM), and enterprise integration scenarios involving MuleSoft APIs/interfaces.
• Responsible for end-to-end test planning, scenario identification, test case preparation, test execution, defect management, regression testing, integration validation, and business user support.
• Experience testing SAP and connected enterprise systems across implementation, upgrade, transformation, support, and enhancement projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, integration designs, and process flows for SAP PM, SAP MM, and MuleSoft-connected interfaces.
• Prepare and maintain:
  • Test scenarios
  • Test cases
  • Test scripts
  • Test data
  • Test execution evidence
  • Traceability matrices
  • Testing status reports
• Execute functional, system integration, end-to-end, regression, smoke, sanity, and production validation testing.
• Validate SAP PM processes, including:
  • Technical Objects
  • Functional Locations
  • Equipment
  • Maintenance Notifications
  • Maintenance Orders
  • Work Order Processing
  • Confirmations
  • Settlement
  • Related Master Data
• Validate SAP MM processes, including:
  • Purchase Requisitions
  • Purchase Orders
  • Goods Receipt
  • Goods Issue
  • Inventory Movements
  • Material Master
  • Vendor Master
  • Stock Checks
  • PM-MM Integration Touchpoints
• Perform integration testing between SAP, MuleSoft APIs, middleware services, external applications, reporting systems, and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
• Review MuleSoft integration payloads, API responses, error messages, data mappings, transformation rules, and interface logs.
• Coordinate with MuleSoft developers and technical teams to troubleshoot integration issues.
• Identify, log, prioritize, track, retest, and close defects.
• Work with defect management tools such as Jira, qTest, ALM, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow.
• Coordinate with SAP functional consultants, MuleSoft developers, business SMEs, product owners, QA leads, and project managers.
• Support UAT preparation, business user coordination, test execution, defect triage, release readiness reviews, and go-live validation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, test design reviews, defect triage, release meetings, and retrospectives.
• Follow QA processes and maintain reusable test assets.
• Provide accurate test progress and quality reporting to stakeholders.

Must-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience in SAP functional testing, particularly SAP PM and SAP MM.
• Strong understanding of SAP PM and MM integration points.
• Experience testing:
  • Maintenance Order Material Consumption
  • Procurement of Services/Materials
  • Reservations
  • Inventory Movements
  • Goods Issue/Receipt
• Experience testing SAP integrations with middleware and API platforms, preferably MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
• Ability to validate interface flows, payload mappings, API responses, error handling, retries, and exception scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • STLC
  • SDLC
  • Defect Lifecycle
  • Agile Testing
  • Test Planning
  • Test Execution
  • Test Reporting
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Ability to create clear test scenarios from functional requirements, user stories, configuration documents, and design specifications.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for test evidence, reporting, traceability, and reconciliation.
• Strong analytical skills to identify requirement gaps, integration issues, data mismatches, and process defects.
• Excellent communication skills with business, functional, technical, and integration teams.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori.
• Experience with SAP EAM and Work and Asset Management transformation programs.
• Experience with utility industry processes.
• Basic understanding of MuleSoft Anypoint:
  • Monitoring
  • Runtime Manager
  • API Manager
  • Queues
  • Connectors
  • Integration Logs
• Experience with API testing tools such as:
  • Postman
  • SoapUI
  • Swagger/OpenAPI
• Knowledge of:
  • SQL
  • Data Validation
  • Data Reconciliation
  • Flat Files
  • XML
  • JSON
  • IDocs
  • BAPIs
  • RFCs
  • Web Services
• Experience supporting automation testing using Selenium, UFT, Tosca, Worksoft, or equivalent tools.
• ISTQB, SAP, Agile/Scrum, or MuleSoft fundamentals certification is preferred.

Required Tools & Platforms

• SAP ECC / SAP S/4HANA.
• SAP GUI.
• SAP Fiori.
• SAP PM/MM transactions and applications.
• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform or equivalent integration monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Jira.
• qTest.
• ALM.
• Azure DevOps.
• ServiceNow.
• Postman.
• SoapUI.
• Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Word.
• Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Teams.

Required Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to collaborate across business, QA, SAP, and integration teams.
• Detail-oriented approach with strong ownership of test quality, evidence, and defect closure.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced release environment.
• Strong documentation skills with the ability to create clear and reusable test assets.
• Ability to work across different time zones.
• Willingness to support planned release and weekend testing windows when required.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Experience testing SAP PM/MM processes in implementation, upgrade, transformation, support, or enhancement projects.
• Experience working on integration-heavy programs involving SAP, MuleSoft, external systems, and API/interface validation.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proactively identify gaps in requirements, test data, interface behavior, and business processes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise release management, change control, test governance, and production validation practices.