Senior Payroll Solutions Lead - Implementations & Automation

Elmo; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Elmo is hiring a Workday Test Lead to drive testing on a multi‑phase HCM implementation in Sydney. You will write and execute tests, coordinate SIT/UAT, and partner with the implementation team to ensure quality across Core HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding.

In this hands-on role you’ll manage test strategies, report progress, and own defect triage. The position offers hybrid work with three onsite days, and exposure to integrations with payroll and identity systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Workday testing experience with HCM modules.
• Ability to design test strategies for functional, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT with business users and partners.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead testing across Workday Core HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding.
• Write and execute functional and integration test scripts yourself.
• Build test strategies and scenarios covering functional, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Coordinate SIT and UAT with HR teams, business process owners and the implementation partner.
• Run defect triage and push issues through to resolution with the partner.
• Test integrations between Workday and connected systems such as payroll and data platforms.

Skills

Workday testing

Functional testing

Integration testing

SIT/UAT coordination

Defect management

Test reporting

Workday HCM

Test automation exposure

Tools

EIBs

Workday Studio

APIs

Third-party payroll integrations

Job description

Workday Test Lead | HCM Implementation | Sydney (Hybrid)

About the company

A large ASX-listed healthcare organisation partway through a major Workday transformation of its HR systems. Phase one covers Core HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding, and more modules are planned after go-live. The programme has strong leadership behind it and takes testing seriously.

About the role

You’ll lead testing on the Workday implementation. This is a hands‑on role, so you’ll write and execute tests yourself as well as run the test effort. You’ll work closely with programme leadership, HR process owners and the implementation partner across functional, integration and end‑to‑end testing. There’s scope to grow into test management as the programme moves into later phases.

Duties / Key responsibilities

• Plan and lead testing across Workday Core HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding
• Write and execute functional and integration test scripts yourself
• Build test strategies and scenarios covering functional, integration and end‑to‑end testing
• Coordinate SIT and UAT with HR teams, business process owners and the implementation partner
• Run defect triage and push issues through to resolution with the partner
• Test integrations between Workday and connected systems such as payroll, identity and data platforms
• Report test progress, coverage and risk clearly to programme leadership

Who you are

You know Workday well enough to test it properly. You understand how business processes, condition rules and security behave, and where a configuration change is likely to break something downstream. You’re still happy in the detail. Leading the test effort doesn’t mean stepping back from the work, and you’d rather run a test yourself than wait on someone else. You’re comfortable in a large organisation where decisions involve more than one group. You can get busy HR people to commit to UAT and keep an implementation partner honest on defects. You raise risk early and plainly. If coverage is thin or a timeline doesn’t stack up, you say so and bring a plan with it.

Benefits

• Lead testing on a multi‑phase Workday programme at ASX‑listed scale
• Room to grow into broader test management over time
• Programme leadership that values testing and backs the people doing it
• Hybrid working with 3 days a week onsite
• Exposure across HCM, Recruitment, Onboarding and integrations, with further modules to come

Skills and experience

• Hands‑on Workday testing background, ideally Workday HCM, writing and executing tests yourself
• Functional testing of Workday business processes, configuration and security
• Integration testing experience (EIBs, Workday Studio, APIs or third‑party payroll integrations)
• Track record coordinating SIT and UAT with business users
• Strong defect management and test reporting
• Experience working alongside SIs or implementation partners
• Workday Recruiting or Onboarding testing experience
• Test automation exposure for Workday (Kainos Smart, Tosca or similar)
• Healthcare or other complex, regulated environment experience