Workday Quality Assurance Lead

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential professional services organization in their search for a Workday Quality Assurance Lead. This role offers the opportunity to drive QA strategy for enterprise-level Workday implementations and transformations. Our client is seeking a seasoned QA professional who can ensure quality across complex ERP environments while managing stakeholder relationships and leading end-to-end testing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end QA strategy for Workday implementation, upgrades, and enhancements
• Define and execute test plans, test strategies, and test frameworks; support risk assessment and mitigation planning
• Oversee functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing cycles
• Ensure testing alignment across Workday modules, including HCM, Finance, Payroll, Time Tracking, and related integrations
• Manage the defect lifecycle, including identification, prioritization, tracking, resolution, and transparent communication of issue status
• Drive test data preparation, environment coordination, release validation, and quality reporting
• Partner with business stakeholders to ensure UAT readiness, execution, sign-off, and alignment with business processes and functional requirements
• Coordinate cross-functional QA activities with developers, business analysts, system integrators, vendors, and other delivery partners
• Ensure adherence to QA best practices, standards, and governance processes

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• 5+ years of quality assurance experience, including 3+ years supporting Workday implementations, with a proven record of leading QA for other ERP solutions or Workday transformation programs
• Deep understanding of Workday business processes and configurations
• Experience with test management tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps and experience automating Workday functional testing
• Strong experience in functional and end-to-end testing methodologies
• Hands-on expertise in UAT planning, coordination, and execution, including defect management, QA metrics, and reporting
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to make informed tradeoff decisions using business value, risk, effort, and user impact
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, dependencies, and release timelines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) implementations
• Background in professional services, accounting, financial services, or another matrixed business environment
• Workday PRO certification(s)
• Experience coordinating with distributed, offshore, or third-party delivery teams
• Formal QA certification, such as ISTQB, CSQA, or Agile Testing certification, with working knowledge of Agile frameworks
• Product certifications such as CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe POPM
• Experience across multiple Workday modules, including HCM, Finance, Integrations, and Payroll
• Familiarity with integration testing involving third-party systems

How We Work with You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. We ask that you do not contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will flow through our recruiting team to ensure a professional and organized process.

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