Workday Test manager

Location: UK Based
Role: Workday Test Lead
Experience: Workday HCM, Payroll and ideally Financials

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Workday Test Lead to support a Workday transformation programme covering HCM, Payroll and ideally Financials. The role will be responsible for coordinating and driving testing activities, ensuring successful execution, defect resolution and overall solution quality.

The ideal candidate will have experience delivering Workday programmes within professional services organisations, preferably accountancy or law firms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate end-to-end testing across Workday HCM, Payroll and Financials.
• Develop and manage test strategies, plans, scenarios and scripts.
• Support hands-on test execution, working closely with business users and functional teams.
• Manage Configuration Unit testing (CUT), E2E testing (E2E), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression and payroll parallel testing.
• Track, triage and coordinate defect resolution with implementation partners and internal teams.
• Coordinate testing across integrations, data migration and end-to-end business processes.
• Provide regular reporting on testing progress, risks, defects and readiness for go-live.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Test Lead on Workday implementation or transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM and Payroll testing.
• Ideally experience testing Workday Financial Management.
• Hands-on approach, comfortable supporting test execution as well as managing testing activities.
• Experience working with System Integrators, business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Strong defect management, planning and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience in professional services, ideally within the legal sector.
• UK-based with flexibility to attend client sites as required.