Workday Test Lead

Coordinate end-to-end testing across Workday and impacted downstream systems, ensuring integrations, data flows, and dependencies are validated. Description : Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work) Enable HR to modernize Client’s career architecture through a simplified, skills-powered job structure that strengthens career pathways and talent mobility.

Description:
Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)

• Enable HR to modernize Client’s career architecture through a simplified, skills-powered job structure that strengthens career pathways and talent mobility. Establish a scalable foundation for compensation and talent practices while improving HR processes, teammate and manager experience, engagement, and retention.

Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)

• Required.

Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)

• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements.
• Translate approved business requirements into test scenarios, test cases, acceptance criteria, and end-to-end testing requirements.
• Lead the overall test planning, coordination, execution, and testing governance for Workday changes related to Career Architecture.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across Workday and impacted downstream systems, ensuring integrations, data flows, and dependencies are validated.
• Partner with downstream application to align on testing scope, timelines, dependencies, test data, and expected results.
• Coordinate functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing and ensure appropriate business requirement coverage.
• Lead defect management, including identification, triage, assignment, tracking, retesting, and closure across Workday and downstream teams.
• Coordinate UAT with business stakeholders, ensuring critical business scenarios and requirements are validated prior to implementation.
• Maintain requirements-to-test traceability and ensure all key business requirements have appropriate test coverage.
• Track and communicate testing progress, defects, risks, blockers, dependencies, and implementation readiness to project stakeholders.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)

• Minimum 5 years of HRIS experience, with strong hands-on experience supporting Workday initiatives.
• Proven experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business requirements and translating them into functional and testing requirements.
• Strong experience in test planning, test scenario/test case development, test execution, and requirements traceability.
• Experience leading and coordinating functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experience coordinating testing with downstream systems and integration teams, including dependencies, data flows, test data, timelines, and issue resolution.
• Strong experience with defect management, including defect triage, tracking, retesting, and closure.
• Ability to identify and communicate testing risks, blockers, dependencies, and implementation readiness to business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across HR, business, and technology teams.
• Experience working within an Agile delivery model, including collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences:(Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)

• Experience using Rally Agile tool.
• Understanding of change management and release management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with business partners

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