Business Analyst (Workday)

SGS Consulting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting in Austin, TX is seeking a Data Quality Analyst to review data, perform QA testing, and ensure accuracy across HR systems including Workday. You will collaborate with IT and business teams to validate data and support testing activities.

The role requires 3+ years in data quality assurance, a Bachelor’s degree preferred, and strong analytical skills. On-site position with opportunities to contribute to post-deploy verification and defect resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with at least 3 years in data quality assurance.
• Experience with QA testing methodologies and data validation.
• Experience working with HR data and HR systems is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Performs data review on structured and ad-hoc bases to spot variances and ensure accuracy.
• Uses multiple data sources to conduct quality control between systems.
• Ensures systems meet business requirements and quality standards via analytics.
• Collaborates with business and IT teams and participates in defect triage meetings.
• Completes test planning, functional, regression, and integration testing; troubleshoots issues.
• Participates in after-hours deployment efforts and post-deployment verification.
• Develops testing solutions to increase team efficiency.
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned.

Skills

HR data

QA testing

Workday

Agile/Sprint

Root cause analysis

Data comparison

MS Office

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

MS Office

Workday

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Performs data review on a structured and ad-hoc basis, looking for pre-established variances and ensuring data accuracy.
• Utilizes multiple data sources to conduct data quality control to ensure data efficacy between systems.
• Ensure systems meet business requirements and quality standards through analytics and best practices.
• Collaborates with business and IT teams and participates in defect triage meetings.
• Completes test planning, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, along with troubleshooting concerns addressed and debugging.
• Involved in after-hours deployment efforts and post-deployment verification testing.
• Develop testing solutions for teams to increase efficiency.
• Performs other duties and projects assigned.

Skills

• Experience with HR data and technology
• Demonstrates some knowledge of QA testing methods
• Minimum of two (2) + years of experience with Workday
• Experience working in an agile/Sprint model is a plus
• Demonstrates ability to perform root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail and ability to compare data between multiple sources
• Expert skills in computer terminal and personal computer operation; Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to make informal and formal presentations, inside and outside the organization; speaking before assigned team or other groups as needed.
• Ability to work on Sunday evenings (take off early during the remaining week)

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred with a minimum of three (3) + years of work experience in data quality assurance