Principal Specialist, ERP S4 HANA Project Management Test Lead (Remote)

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

About the role

At RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. The oneRTX: Process & Systems Transformation (PST) project is a major, multi-year initiative to harmonize processes, tools, and metrics across RTX while deploying a common enterprise resource management platform—SAP’s S/4 HANA. The result will be a common user experience, real-time visibility into critical data, and automation of manual tasks to enable employees to focus on value-add activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans.
• Oversee the creation of test cases (automated and manual).
• Coordinate unit, integration, regression, and UAT testing phases.
• Define test scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with functional and technical teams.
• Manage test environments, data preparation, and test execution schedules.
• Lead defect triage meetings, ensuring timely resolution and retesting.
• Ensure compliance with SAP best practices and organizational QA standards.
• Provide status reports and metrics to stakeholders and project leadership.
• Collaborate with business users, consultants, and offshore teams to ensure test coverage and readiness.
• Drive test progress to adhere to overall project timeline.
• Resource management and allocation, understanding test team workload, potential resource constraints, and ensure optimal resource utilization.
• Proactive risk management: identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor potential risks with real-time alerts for critical issues.
• Communicate expectations and instill accountability in test team members.
• Resolve conflicts, promote work sharing, and motivate teams toward common goals.
• Manage multiple test activities, tasks, and resources through effective organization, prioritization, and time management practices.
• Documentation, stakeholder communication, and identifying areas for improvement to enhance quality and efficiency of testing activities.
• Travel ~25%-50% to other major RTX US sites (e.g., Farmington, Richardson, Cedar Rapids, and Charlotte).

Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience OR in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience with test management tools such as qTest, ALM, or similar.
• Experience in cross-functional testing coordination across different workstreams, including management of onsite-offshore testing teams and alignment of deliverables.
• Prior involvement in SAP upgrade or implementation projects.
• Experience with multiple methodologies including waterfall and agile Scrum methodology.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in a matrix and team environment with ability to collaborate across lines of business process and digital.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple activities concurrently.
• Work productively in a fast-paced, demanding environment (virtually as well as in-person).
• Guide and influence at multiple levels of the organization, including executive leadership.
• Experience managing test phases for large-scale, complex programs and projects related to business process and system transformation, ideally ERP implementation using SAP’s S/4 HANA solution.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.

Pay

The salary range for this role is 86,800 USD - 165,200 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Schedule

This position is currently designated as remote. Employees in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home) but may be expected to travel to the site location as needed. Travel ~25%-50% to other major RTX US sites (e.g., Farmington, Richardson, Cedar Rapids, and Charlotte) is required.