Cutover Lead

Salary: £36,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading test execution and cutover activities on large-scale ERP or SAP programmes.
• Strong background delivering SIT, UAT, regression testing, performance testing, and mock cutovers.
• Excellent planning, coordination, risk management, and issue resolution skills.
• Strong stakeholder management experience across business, programme, and technical teams.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies, defect management processes, and testing tools.
• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience is desirable.
• Experience with SAP testing tools such as Solution Manager, Tricentis Tosca, SAP ALM, Jira, and XRay is desirable.
• Knowledge of data migration, environment planning, and system landscapes is desirable.
• Understanding of release management and DevOps concepts is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business-side cutover planning and execution activities.
• Coordinate cutover tasks, dependencies, data readiness, and resource requirements.
• Validate cutover plans including data loads, stock runs, freeze periods, and downtime windows.
• Support mock cutovers and dress rehearsals, capturing lessons learned and driving continuous improvement.
• Manage business readiness assessments and secure sign-off against go-live criteria.
• Coordinate communications, operational impacts, staffing requirements, and site readiness activities.
• Lead the planning and execution of all testing phases, including SIT, UAT, regression testing, performance testing, and dress rehearsals.
• Review and validate test plans, scripts, and quality gates to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Coordinate SMEs and end users across multiple business functions to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Manage defect triage activities and track issue resolution through to closure.
• Monitor testing progress, risks, escalations, and achievement of exit criteria.
• Ensure testing outcomes support business readiness and go-live success.
• Support go-live execution and command centre operations.
• Prioritise and coordinate issue resolution during hypercare.
• Ensure knowledge transfer and support processes are established for post-go-live operations.
• Oversee remediation of issues relating to data, process execution, and system adoption.
• Support transition into BAU support with clear ownership of outstanding actions.

Technologies:

• DevOps
• ERP
• Support
• JIRA
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP
• Tosca
• Windows

More:

We are seeking an experienced Test Execution & Cutover Lead to join a major SAP S/4HANA transformation programme in Manchester, with three days onsite and a six-month initial contract outside IR35. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring successful testing, business readiness, cutover execution, and go-live support within a complex enterprise environment. Working closely with programme stakeholders, business users, and technical teams, you will help deliver a smooth and controlled SAP S/4HANA deployment.

last updated 30 week of 2026