Workday Test Manager

CE Global Partners; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CE Global Partners seeks an experienced Workday Test Lead to drive testing across HCM, Payroll and Financials during a transformation programme. The role coordinates testing activities, ensures defect resolution and safeguards overall solution quality.

UK-based with flexibility to attend client sites. The ideal candidate has proven Workday Test Lead experience in professional services, preferably accounting or law firms, and will collaborate with SI partners and business users to deliver robust

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Test Lead on Workday implementation or transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM and Payroll testing; ideally Financials.
• Hands-on approach with testing activities and defect management.

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 with business users and functional teams.
• Manage CUT, E2E, UAT, regression and payroll parallel testing.
• Track, triage and coordinate defect resolution with partners and internal teams.
• Coordinate testing across integrations, data migration and end-to-end processes.
• Provide regular reporting on testing progress, risks, defects and readiness for go-live.

Skills

Workday

Test Lead

HCM

Payroll

Financials

Defect management

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Location: UK-based

Role: Workday Test Lead

Experience: Workday HCM, Payroll, and ideally Financials

Workday: If you do not have Workday experience, please do not apply.

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.