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The Sign-Off Table

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Been there.
Signed off on that.

I’m Matt Angerer. I started in SAP in 2002, configuring order-to-cash at Unilever. Since then I have audited SAP for the U.S. Army, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency, led global SAP testing for Honda, Mettler-Toledo and Tory Burch, built a global SAP Testing Center of Excellence from scratch, and spent nearly five years at Tricentis being sent into the S/4HANA programs that were in the most trouble.

I have sat on every side of the sign-off table: writing the tests, leading the testers, governing the defects, reporting to the executives making the go/no-go call, and helping vendors build the tools. This show is where I ask the people who make that call today how they decide.

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Illustration of Matt AngererTHE SIGN-OFF TABLERELEASE · APPROVED
years in SAP, from ECC order-to-cash in 2002 to S/4HANA today
24
years in SAP, from ECC order-to-cash in 2002 to S/4HANA today
business testers led through a single SAP rollout
60+
business testers led through a single SAP rollout
in SAP test automation portfolios safeguarded at Tricentis
$150M+
in SAP test automation portfolios safeguarded at Tricentis
SAP power users trained on a global rollout
100+
SAP power users trained on a global rollout

Who I’ve worked with

From the Army’s supply chain to the factory floor

Organizations I have tested for, consulted with and helped along the way, across defense, automotive, manufacturing, energy, consumer goods, financial services and the public sector.

  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Navy
  • Defense Logistics Agency
  • Honda
  • Unilever
  • Mettler-Toledo
  • Duke Energy
  • Norfolk Southern
  • Accenture
  • SM Energy
  • Tory Burch
  • Nationwide FinancialNationwide Financial
  • Avon Products
  • Emerson Network Powernow Vertiv
  • EchoStar
  • American Century
  • State of Ohio
  • Wisconsin Public Service
  • Imperial Irrigation District
  • Tricentis

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The whole lifecycle

Two decades of SAP testing

SAP landscapes

  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP ECC and mySAP ERP
  • SAP CRM
  • SD, MM and order-to-cash
  • EDI and interfaces

The full test lifecycle

  • Master test strategy and plan
  • SIT and UAT
  • Regression and end-to-end
  • Defect governance and triage
  • Cutover and go/no-go readiness

Programs

  • Global rollouts and standardization
  • Federal SAP IV&V
  • Testing Centers of Excellence
  • Onshore / offshore delivery
  • Distressed S/4HANA recovery

Tools

  • Tricentis Tosca, LiveCompare and qTest
  • SAP Solution Manager
  • OpenText / HP ALM and Quality Center
  • UFT / QTP and Sprinter
  • Agentic AI and MCP

The road so far

24 years, one question: is it ready?

  1. 2025 – Today

    Product builder

    ScreenForge Labs

    ScreenForge Labs

    Founder

    Building AI-native background screening products end to end: VolunteerBadge, which helps nonprofits keep the people they serve safe, and the relaunched VerticalRent for landlords.

    • VolunteerBadge: affordable, FCRA-compliant background checks used by volunteers in nearly all 50 states
    • Bought back and relaunched VerticalRent, the tenant screening company Matt co-founded in 2011
    • Host of The Sign-In Table, a podcast with nonprofit leaders making a difference in their communities
  2. Oct 2020 – Apr 2025

    SAP test automation

    Tricentis

    Tricentis

    Director & Principal Customer Success Manager — SAP Test Automation

    Led Tricentis’s SAP-focused Customer Success team in the US and Manila, advising enterprises on SAP S/4HANA and ECC test automation with Tricentis Tosca, LiveCompare and qTest.

    • Hand-picked as one of three global Principal CSMs for the highest-risk enterprise SAP testing accounts
    • Parachuted into distressed S/4HANA programs to stabilize test adoption, reset executive alignment and recover go-live confidence
    • Safeguarded $150M+ in ARR at ~85% gross retention across SAP regression and end-to-end automation portfolios
    • Managed and scaled teams of 5–8 CSMs and Customer Success Engineers across the Americas, LATAM, EMEA and APAC
  3. Jan 2018 – Oct 2019

    Test toolchain architecture

    Tasktop

    Tasktopnow Planview

    Sr. Presales Solution Architect — QA / Test Toolchains

    Architected value stream integrations across 35+ Dev and QA tools, including Jira, Azure DevOps, OpenText ALM/UFT and Tricentis Tosca, for Fortune 500 clients.

    • Connected requirements, defects and test results end to end
    • Recognized SME on the TestGuild podcast and industry webinars on raising defect detection through toolchain interoperability
  4. Oct 2014 – Sep 2017

    SAP test consulting

    ResultsPositive

    ResultsPositive

    Sr. Solution Architect — SAP QA & ALM Practice Lead

    Led SAP regression testing and QA best-practice workshops and the HPE ALM / UFT / Quality Center practice for SAP enterprises including Emerson Network Power, American Century and EchoStar.

    • Drove a $2M HPE ALM, UFT and Performance Center engagement at Emerson Network Power, from executive presentation to delivery
    • Wrote "Building an SAP Testing Center of Excellence" (2016)
  5. Dec 2014 – Feb 2015

    SAP standardization program

    Tory Burch

    Tory Burch

    Global SAP Test Lead

    Architected the SAP Master Test Strategy and the HP ALM taxonomy, establishing the governance model to standardize the enterprise SAP rollout.

    • Designed the “Golden Thread” QA metrics strategy, giving leadership real-time SIT, UAT and release-readiness visibility
  6. Sep 2014 – Dec 2014

    SAP standardization program

    SM Energy

    SM Energy

    Global SAP Test Lead

    Led SAP system integration testing and user acceptance testing cycles end to end against strict release timelines.

    • Ran HP ALM with bespoke defect workflows and an SAP metrics strategy for confident go/no-go decisions
  7. Jan 2014 – Sep 2014

    SAP standardization program

    Honda

    HondaHonda Motors Global

    Global SAP Test Lead

    Owned SAP testing for a critical, enterprise-wide automotive rollout.

    • Led three consecutive SAP SIT cycles to 100% on-time execution
    • Directed 7 QA leads and 60+ business testers; built Honda’s SAP QA framework on HP ALM, QTP and Sprinter
    • Architected the end-to-end test plan and the SIT-to-UAT handover, with defect triage that secured executive go-live sign-off
  8. May 2011 – Aug 2013

    Global SAP ECC & CRM rollout

    Mettler-Toledo

    Mettler-Toledo

    Global SAP EDI & Test Manager

    Owned unit, integration and regression testing for the SAP ECC and CRM rollout across the Americas, India, China and Switzerland, follow-the-sun.

    • Built the global SAP Testing Center of Excellence in Warsaw and Chennai for automated regression and performance testing
    • Directed 30+ onshore and offshore test associates; trained 100+ SAP power users
    • Defined stage gates across unit, SIT, UAT and regression, plus a golden test data strategy
  9. Oct 2010 – May 2011

    Risk-based test management

    Nationwide

    NationwideNationwide Financial

    Program Test Manager

    Test lead for a $1.8M DTCC replacement program spanning SOA services and a data warehouse.

    • Built the Master Test Plan and an HP ALM “Testing Risk Book” with quantitative risk scoring and 100% requirements traceability
  10. Aug 2009 – Oct 2010

    UAT at scale

    State of Ohio

    State of Ohio

    Project Test Lead / UAT SME

    HP Quality Center SME for 100+ UAT testers; built the training curriculum and the data-conversion validation method.

  11. May 2008 – Dec 2008

    SAP IV&V

    U.S. Army

    U.S. ArmyGFEBS

    Sr. SAP IV&V / QA Specialist

    Lead independent verification and validation specialist auditing the Accenture-led mySAP ERP 2005 implementation (SD/MM) to IEEE standards.

    • Requirements and risk analysis safeguarding the Army’s global supply chain
    • Built an SAP NetWeaver bootcamp for non-SAP analysts
  12. Jan 2005 – Jun 2007

    Federal SAP QA

    MEBC Global

    MEBC Global

    SAP QA & IV&V Consultant

    QA and IV&V oversight for Department of Defense SAP programs, Defense Logistics Agency Business Systems Modernization and Navy ERP, plus Wisconsin Public Service and Imperial Irrigation District.

    • Delivered instructor-led SAP and Manugistics training across Europe
  13. Jun 2002 – Jan 2005

    Where it started

    Unilever

    UnileverHome & Personal Care

    SAP SD/MM & EDI Integration Analyst

    Configured and supported SAP SD and MM for high-volume order-to-cash in consumer goods manufacturing, and owned EDI.

Beyond SAP

A builder outside the day job, too.

Matt has been building his own products since 2011, when he co-founded VerticalRent. Building background screening into a rental platform taught him a lot about trust and about software people depend on. He grew it to more than 100,000 landlords and sold it in 2019.

That screening know-how became ScreenForge Labs and VolunteerBadge, which helps the nonprofits that run on volunteers keep children, families and the elderly safe. Volunteers in nearly all 50 states have been screened through it.

It also led to Matt’s other podcast, The Sign-In Table, where he talks with nonprofit leaders about the work they do in their communities. Many of them are profiled in VolunteerBadge’s monthly Impact Report.

Two tables, one idea: the people who sign in to serve, and the people who sign off on what ships, deserve to have their stories told.