Senior Workday Test Lead: HCM, Payroll & Financials

CE Global Partners; Nantwich; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

CE Global Partners is seeking an experienced Workday Test Lead to support a Workday transformation programme covering HCM, Payroll, and ideally Financials. You will coordinate testing activities, drive test strategies, and ensure defects are resolved to deliver a quality solution.

The ideal candidate has proven Workday testing leadership in professional services, preferably within the legal sector, with UK-based availability to attend client sites as required.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Test Leadership

Workday Testing

HCM Testing

Payroll Testing

UAT & CUT

Tools

Workday

Job description

CE Global Partners is seeking an experienced Workday Test Lead to support a Workday transformation programme covering HCM, Payroll, and ideally Financials. You will coordinate testing activities, drive test strategies, and ensure defects are resolved to deliver a quality solution.

The ideal candidate has proven Workday testing leadership in professional services, preferably within the legal sector, with UK-based availability to attend client sites as required.