Remote Workday QA Lead | End-to-End ERP Quality

Wipfli; United States; Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans (HMO & PPO)

Dental and vision coverage

HSA with employer contribution

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) & profit sharing

Flexible time off

Family leave

Job summary

Wipfli is seeking a Workday Quality Assurance Lead to guide QA strategy across the Workday implementation, upgrades, and enhancements. You will oversee testing across HCM, Finance, Payroll, and integrations while remaining hands-on during peak periods.

In this role you will collaborate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure UAT readiness, issue resolution, and quality reporting, while upholding QA governance and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education, Workday, ERP, and quality assurance experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of quality assurance experience, including 3+ years supporting Workday implementations, with a proven record of leading QA for other ERP solutions or Workday transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of Workday business processes and configurations.
• Experience with test management tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps and experience automating Workday functional testing.
• Strong experience in functional and end-to-end testing methodologies.
• Hands-on expertise in UAT planning, coordination, and execution, including defect management, QA metrics, and reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to make informed trade-off decisions using business value, risk, effort, and user impact.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, dependencies, and release timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end QA strategy for the Workday implementation, upgrades, and enhancements
• Define and execute test plans, test strategies, and test frameworks; support risk assessment and mitigation planning
• Oversee functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing cycles
• Ensure testing alignment across Workday modules, including HCM, Finance, Payroll, Time Tracking, and related integrations
• Manage the defect lifecycle, including identification, prioritization, tracking, resolution, and transparent communication of issue status
• Drive test data preparation, environment coordination, release validation, and quality reporting
• Partner with business stakeholders to ensure UAT readiness, execution, sign-off, and alignment with business processes and functional requirements
• Coordinate cross-functional QA activities with developers, business analysts, system integrators, vendors, and other delivery partners
• Ensure adherence to QA best practices, standards, and governance processes

Skills

QA leadership

Workday testing

Test management

UAT planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/CS/related

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Workday testing automation

Job description

Wipfli is seeking a Workday Quality Assurance Lead to guide QA strategy across the Workday implementation, upgrades, and enhancements. You will oversee testing across HCM, Finance, Payroll, and integrations while remaining hands-on during peak periods.

In this role you will collaborate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure UAT readiness, issue resolution, and quality reporting, while upholding QA governance and best practices.