QKTech Enables On-Time SAP ECC to S/4HANA Go-Live for a Leading Automotive Manufacturer
Industry & Segment
Automotive & Manufacturing
Objective
To ensure on-time, risk-free migration from SAP ECC to S/4 HANA with zero critical defects post-go-live, while reducing access-control and compliance risks.
Client Overview
Client is a leading automotive and manufacturing organization with a diversified business portfolio and a strong operational footprint across multiple markets. SAP ERP serves as a critical backbone for its business operations, supporting key processes across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and enterprise functions.
Why QKTech
The client needed a quality engineering partner that could operate at migration speed across functional validation, access control, compliance risk, and automation at scale. This was QKTech’s team-built SAP test coverage from the ground up, applying its automation engineering depth, tooling expertise, and structured migration testing methodology to stand up broad coverage on a compressed timeline.
Business Challenges
Migration complexity and tight go-live timeline
Traditional testing approaches for migration would have extended timelines and increased migration risk, impacting production schedules, financial close deadlines, and customer order fulfillment.
Access control and compliance risk
Large-scale ERP migrations typically expose gaps in role authorization testing, creating post-go-live access control issues and compliance vulnerabilities.
Limited test asset availability and build time
Building comprehensive SAP test coverage from scratch would have delayed migration readiness. The program required rapid test asset creation, fast automation ramp-up, and domain expertise to validate critical business processes without extending the migration timeline.
QKTech’s Approach
We delivered an integrated quality engineering and reliability program aligned to the migration lifecycle.
Purpose-built SAP Test Asset Library
- Established comprehensive SAP test coverage across multiple business-critical modules and processes, including critical SAP modules such as SD, MM, FI, CO, PP, PM, and HR
- Validated 50+ end-to-end business processes, including order to cash and procure to pay
Automated role authorization testing
- Automated role authorization testing across complex SAP access-control scenarios, run as a critical Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) checkpoint
- Proactive identification of segregation of duties conflicts and compliance gaps before go-live
End-to-end automated testing with openText UFT
- Executed 5,000+ test cases, of which 3,000+ were automated, reaching roughly 60% automation coverage across business-critical SAP transactions
- Automation built on an OpenText UFT framework
App modernization and cloud migration support
- QKTech supported the SAP modernization effort, largely moving applications from on premises to cloud
- Integration testing across Google Cloud infrastructure and across the in-scope modules, including SD, MM, FI, CO, PP, PM, and HR
- SAP domain consultation to guide migration and upgrade decision-making across the program
Business Impact
The gains reached beyond the contact center to product, leadership and future AI work.
- On-time go-live with zero critical defects ensured uninterrupted business operations, protecting revenue and customer commitments
- 300+ defects were identified and resolved before go-live, preventing post-migration disruption
- Automated role authorization testing across 1000+ role combinations ensured SOX compliance, proper segregation of duties, and audit readiness to prevent compliance penalties
- The SAP test repository became QKTech’s reusable asset base for subsequent SAP migration projects, turning a first-of-its-kind build into a repeatable accelerator
- Automation-first execution and a structured migration methodology established a sustainable SAP testing framework for future upgrades
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