Workday Financials Test Lead

Cognizant; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Financials Test Lead to drive end-to-end QA for Workday Financials implementations, upgrades, and releases. You will collaborate with functional consultants, business SMEs, and integration teams to ensure audit-ready releases.

You will lead test strategy, governance, and coverage across GL, AP, AR, and more, coordinating SIT, UAT, and performance testing, including Workday integrations and SOX compliance. This role is onsite in Addison, Texas.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading testing for Workday Financials implementations, upgrades, enhancements, or feature releases.
• Strong testing experience across Workday Financials modules such as GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, Banking, Procurement, and Financial Reporting.
• Experience developing test strategies, plans, scenarios, traceability matrices, entry/exit criteria, and go-live readiness assessments.
• Proven history managing System Integration Testing, UAT, regression, integration, and defect management cycles.
• Experience validating Workday integrations using EIBs, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Web Services, or related technologies.
• Proficiency with test management and defect-tracking tools such as Jira, Zephyr, qTest, HP ALM, or Quality Center.
• Experience leading test teams, reviewing test deliverables, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders, and providing test status reports to leadership.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, or comparable automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end test planning, strategy, estimation, and execution for Workday Financials implementations, tenant upgrades, enhancements, and biannual feature releases.
• Design, review, and manage test scenarios and test cases across Workday Financials modules including GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, Banking, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts, Projects, and Financial Reporting.
• Establish and manage the test governance model, including entry/exit criteria, requirements traceability, RAID logs, defect triage, test metrics, and go-live readiness.
• Coordinate System Integration Testing, UAT, regression, integration, and performance testing with appropriate coverage across business and technical requirements.
• Validate Workday Financials integrations with banking interfaces, tax engines, procurement platforms, payroll systems, and reporting tools using EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and Web Services.
• Lead and mentor test analysts by assigning responsibilities, reviewing artifacts, monitoring execution, and maintaining quality standards.
• Prepare test status reports, dashboards, quality metrics, and risk updates for project leadership and steering committees.
• Support SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit requirements, and contribute to automation initiatives using Tosca, Selenium, or similar tools.

Skills

Leadership

Test planning

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Tools

Jira

Zephyr

qTest

HP ALM

Quality Center

Job description

About the role

As a Workday Financials Test Lead, you will make an impact by leading end-to-end quality assurance and testing activities for Workday Financials implementations, tenant upgrades, feature releases, and enhancements. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and work collaboratively with Workday functional consultants, business subject matter experts, integration teams, and Workday HCM and Payroll teams to support high-quality, audit-ready releases.

In this role, you will

Lead end-to-end test planning, strategy, estimation, and execution for Workday Financials implementations, tenant upgrades, enhancements, and biannual feature releases.

Design, review, and manage test scenarios and test cases across Workday Financials modules, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Banking, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts, Projects, and Financial Reporting.

Establish and manage the test governance model, including entry and exit criteria, requirements traceability, RAID logs, defect triage, test metrics, and go-live readiness.

Coordinate System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, regression, integration, and performance testing while ensuring appropriate test coverage across business and technical requirements.

Validate Workday Financials integrations with banking interfaces, tax engines, procurement platforms, payroll systems, and reporting tools using EIBs, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, and Workday Web Services.

Lead and mentor test analysts by assigning responsibilities, reviewing test artifacts, monitoring execution, and maintaining quality standards.

Prepare test status reports, dashboards, quality metrics, and risk updates for project leadership and steering committees.

Support compliance testing for SOX, internal controls, and audit requirements, and contribute to automation initiatives using Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, or similar tools.

Work model

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite position at Addison, Texas.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you are engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

10+ years of extensive experience leading testing activities for Workday Financials implementations, upgrades, enhancements, or feature releases.

Strong functional testing experience across Workday Financials modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Banking, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts, Projects, and Financial Reporting.

Experience developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, traceability matrices, entry and exit criteria, and go-live readiness assessments.

Demonstrated experience managing System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, regression, integration, and defect management cycles.

Experience validating Workday integrations using EIBs, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Web Services, or related integration technologies.

Proficiency with test management and defect-tracking tools such as Jira, Zephyr, qTest, HP ALM, or Quality Center.

Experience leading test teams, reviewing test deliverables, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders, and providing test status reporting to leadership.

Experience with test automation tools such as Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, or comparable automation solutions.

These will help you stand out

Experience testing cross-functional dependencies between Workday Financials, HCM, Payroll, Procurement, and external platforms.

Experience supporting Workday biannual feature release testing and tenant configuration validation.

Knowledge of SOX compliance, financial controls, internal audit requirements, and evidence-based testing.

Experience creating executive-level dashboards, quality metrics, defect trends, and testing risk reports.

Experience implementing or expanding automated regression testing for Workday Financials processes.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*