Senior Anaplan Consultant

Title: Sr. Anaplan Consultant Location: Seattle, WA (100% Remote) Job description: We are seeking a highly skilled Techno‑Functional Consultant with strong expertise in Anaplan. The ideal candidate will combine hands‑on technical Model building and testing skills with a deep understanding of enterprise business planning, data flows, integration touchpoints, and end‑to‑end validation across planning models and enterprise data platforms. Key Responsibilities 1. 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.