Product Owner QA (Senior Expert)

This role leads product ownership for quality assurance and related SAP business solutions. Responsibilities include defining the product vision, roadmap, and backlog; prioritizing features; and coordinating development so that business value is delivered. The role works with product managers, global project managers, business analysts, IT project managers, and service functions across international environments.

The Product Owner contributes to company-wide transformation initiatives and supports global projects at the enterprise level. The role covers requirements definition, conversion of business requirements into product requirements, backlog maintenance, release planning, and stakeholder coordination. It also includes establishing and maintaining relationships with business owners and supporting projects involving processes such as plan, source, make, and deliver.

The position contributes to solution design and requirements definition, including adapting SAP designs and coordinating with business partners and IT departments. It supports the preparation and review of solution design documents and communication of unresolved issues to global project managers. The role also handles customization requests, business-value and risk considerations, compliance, and use of standardized global templates.

Quality assurance responsibilities include acting as a subject-matter expert during development, reviewing deliverables and business requirements, defining unit-test conditions, conducting final reviews and approvals, coordinating test-environment migration, and planning and leading integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Required qualifications include a university degree in business administration, science, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. Applicants need three to seven years of experience as a Product Owner, business analyst, or in a related role, together with knowledge of IT infrastructure and the ability to understand user requirements and communicate solutions. Strong communication and presentation skills, coordination ability, logical and data-based thinking, and leadership are also required.

Preferred qualifications include Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe PO/PM, or an equivalent certification; experience with Jira or similar DevOps tools; SAP S/4 module knowledge such as QM and MM; and experience with SAP implementation methods including SAP Activate. Knowledge of business process frameworks such as PLAN, SOURCE, MAKE, and DELIVER, SCOR, APQC, or SAP enterprise architecture frameworks is also relevant.

The work location is the Olympus headquarters in Hachioji, Tokyo, immediately after hiring. Satellite offices and remote work may be possible depending on the circumstances.