Remote Workday QA Lead – End-to-End Testing

Wipfli; United States; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan options

HSA with firm contribution

401(k) savings plan & profit share

Education & certification assistance

Flexible time off

Job summary

Wipfli is seeking a Workday Quality Assurance Lead to drive end-to-end QA across Workday implementations, upgrades, and enhancements. The role includes strategy, planning, coordination, and hands-on testing during peak periods, with collaboration across QA, development, and business teams.

The candidate will oversee functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing for HCM, Finance, Payroll, and related integrations, ensuring alignment with business processes and requirements while

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 tradeoff 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 strategy

Test planning

UAT planning

Defect management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Systems/CS/Business/Accounting/Finance

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Workday testing automation

Job description

Wipfli is seeking a Workday Quality Assurance Lead to drive end-to-end QA across Workday implementations, upgrades, and enhancements. The role includes strategy, planning, coordination, and hands-on testing during peak periods, with collaboration across QA, development, and business teams.

The candidate will oversee functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing for HCM, Finance, Payroll, and related integrations, ensuring alignment with business processes and requirements while