Workday HCM Test Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Workday HCM testing activities (customer-side) across the implementation lifecycle, including system, integration, UAT, and go-live readiness.
• Lead and organize HCM testing activities, providing structure, coordination, and accountability.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, schedules, and execution approaches aligned to program milestones.
• Lead and actively participate in hands-on test execution, defect triage, retesting, and readiness assessments.

Advisory & Consulting Role

• Act as a consultative partner to the client and program leadership, advising on best practices for Workday HCM Core configuration, testing, and operations.
• Apply deep understanding of Workday methodology, including its strengths and limitations, and proactively supplement standard artifacts and processes where necessary.
• Identify risks and gaps early and recommend pragmatic mitigation strategies to keep the program on track.

Documentation & Operational Readiness

• Support the development of artifacts required for the production operating model, ensuring testing outputs align with post-go-live support needs.
• Contribute to the creation of documentation that supports:
• End-user and administrator training
• Transition to steady-state production operations

Collaboration & Scope

• Collaborate closely with functional, technical, and business stakeholders across the U.S. and Canada.
• Ensure testing approaches reflect U.S. and Canada regulatory and operational requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Workday HCM advisor and test lead or equivalent role on full life-cycle Workday implementations.
• Proven ability to balance hands-on execution with leadership responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM modules and end-to-end business processes.
• Deep familiarity with Workday implementation methodology, including where additional rigor or artifacts may be required.
• Demonstrated consulting mindset with the ability to be advisory, pragmatic, and delivery-focused.
• Experience supporting testing activities through go-live and transition to production.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting US/Canada centric Workday implementations.
• Prior experience contributing to training enablement and production support documentation.
• Experience working in complex, multi-workstream or large enterprise implementations.