Sr. Anaplan Consultant
- Fixity Technologies
2 Days Ago
NA
C2C
Seattle-WA
10-20 Years
Required Skills: Anaplan model building, testing, ALM, integrations, FP&A planning processes
Job Description
Seeking a Senior Anaplan Techno-Functional Consultant with strong hands-on experience in Anaplan model building, testing, ALM, integrations, and FP&A planning processes. The ideal candidate should possess Anaplan Model Builder Level 3 certification or Solution Architect certification and be capable of leading end-to-end validation, QA, and testing activities across enterprise planning platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Anaplan Functional & Technical Validation
- Review business user requirements and user stories to create comprehensive test scenarios.
- Validate Anaplan modules, lists, hierarchies, actions, and processes.
- Test model-to-model, model-to-data hub, model-to-target system integrations (Anaplan Connect, APIs, Airflow, etc.).
- Perform regression, UAT, and performance testing on planning cycles and connected planning workflows.
- Lead end-to-end QA strategy for user stories.
- Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, test execution reports, and defect management.
- Work closely with product owners, planners, data engineers, and developers to ensure high-quality releases.
- Drive quality reviews, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvements.
Preferred:
- Test REST APIs, microservices, and integration layers connected to Anaplan or downstream systems.
- Conduct schema checks, data integrity validation, reconciliation, and lineage verification.
- Validate data ingestion, transformation, and processing across ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Databricks etc).
Required Skills & Competencies
Functional Skills:
- Strong understanding of planning processes: FP&A / supply chain planning / workforce planning / sales planning, or related domains.
- Ability to translate business rules into test cases and validate model behavior.
- Technical Skills (Mandatory)
- Anaplan: model structures, formulas, actions/processes, imports/exports, ALM, UX testing.
- QA: functional and technical testing, APIs, data ingestions, scheduled jobs etc
- Anaplan (Model Builder L3 and above)
Tools (preferred)
- Jira, AWS, ALM, GitHub, Sharepoint, Teams
- Snowflakes/Azure/AWS certification
- Python, PyTest, Postman, Selenium
- Knowledge of data quality frameworks
- Exposure to analytics platforms (Power BI/Tableau)
Education:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Commerce, Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related fields.
