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QA - Environment & Release Lead
- Calgary, AB, Canada
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Position - QA - Environment & Release Lead
Contract - Long Term
Location - Calgary, AB
Work type - Onsite
Position Summary- SAP Environment & Cutover Release Lead is responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and executing environment management, release management, cutover activities, dress rehearsals, and production deployment readiness for the SAP S/4HANA transformation program. Single point of accountability for ensuring environments, releases, transports, deployment activities, and cutover tasks are aligned across business, IT, system integrators, and testing teams to enable a seamless and low-risk go-live.
Roles & Responsibilities-
•Environment Management
•Define and govern environment strategy across all SAP landscapes (DEV, QA, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, Prod).
•Ensure environment availability and readiness for testing and deployments.
•Manage environment refreshes, data provisioning, and configuration synchronization.
•Coordinate with technical teams to resolve environment-related issues.
•Maintain environment schedules and usage planning across workstreams.
•Release Management
•Establish and govern release management processes and deployment controls.
•Manage transport migrations and release deployments across environments.
•Govern release scope, readiness, and implementation schedules.
•Ensure compliance with change management and quality standards.
•Track release risks, dependencies, and production deployment approvals.
•Cutover Planning & Governance
•Develop and manage the overall cutover strategy and master cutover plan.
•Coordinate cutover activities across business and technology teams.
•Define cutover runbooks, task sequencing, checkpoints, and escalation paths.
•Monitor cutover risks, dependencies, and milestone completion.
•Lead readiness reviews and deployment governance decisions.
•Production Readiness
•Plan and execute cutover simulations and dress rehearsals.
•Validate timelines, resource readiness, rollback plans, and deployment procedures.
•Ensure business, technical, and support teams are prepared for go-live.
•Conduct production readiness assessments and stage-gate reviews.
•Validate completion of all pre-go-live readiness activities.
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Responsibilities
The lead is responsible for planning and governing SAP S/4HANA environment management, release cycles, and cutover activities. They act as the single point of accountability to ensure seamless deployment and production readiness across all technical and business teams.
Requirements
The role requires extensive experience in managing complex SAP landscapes and coordinating cross-functional deployment activities. Candidates must be capable of developing master cutover plans and leading production readiness assessments to minimize go-live risks.
Skills
- SAP S/4HANA
- Environment Management
- Release Management
- Cutover Planning
- Deployment Readiness
- Change Management
- Transport Migrations
- Data Provisioning
- Configuration Synchronization
- Runbook Development
- Dress Rehearsals
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Risk Management
- Quality Standards
- Governance
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- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- SAP S/4HANA
- Environment Management
- Release Management
- Cutover Strategy
- Deployment Readiness
- IT Services
- IT Consulting
- Change Management
- Transport Management
- SIT
- UAT
- Pre-Prod
- Production Deployment
- Runbook
- Dress Rehearsals
- Governance
- System Integration
- Landscape Management
- Data Provisioning
- Configuration Synchronization
- Milestone Planning
- Escalation Management
- Stage-gate Reviews
- Transformation Program