Workday Project Test Lead

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) is seeking an experienced Workday Test Lead to direct testing across Workday applications, enhancements, integrations, and business process changes. The role focuses on test strategy development, coordinating efforts, and ensuring quality before deployment.

The ideal candidate brings strong Workday testing leadership, stakeholder management, and plan execution skills, with optional automation experience using OpKey to boost coverage and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience leading testing efforts for Workday implementations, enhancements, or ongoing support.
• Strong knowledge of functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and UAT testing methodologies.
• Ability to develop test strategies, plans, test cases, scenarios, and traceability docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing across Workday modules and configurations.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, scenarios, and cases aligned to requirements.
• Coordinate testing activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Manage test execution, defects, and status reporting to project leadership.
• Ensure test coverage for HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Financial Management, and other Workday areas.

Skills

Workday testing

Test leadership

Defect tracking

Test planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Workday certification

Tools

OpKey

Job description

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!

Workday Project Test Lead

St. Louis, MO (Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week)

12+ Months with extension

W2 Contract role

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Workday Test Lead to lead testing activities across Workday applications, enhancements, integrations, and business process changes. This individual will be responsible for developing test strategies, coordinating testing efforts, managing test execution, tracking defects, and ensuring solutions meet business requirements and quality standards before deployment. The ideal candidate will combine strong Workday testing expertise with proven test leadership, stakeholder management, and test planning skills. Experience with automated testing tools is a plus, particularly Opkey, which can help improve test coverage, repeatability, and overall testing efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing activities for Workday implementations, enhancements, integrations, configuration changes, and periodic releases.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test cases aligned with business requirements.
• Establish testing schedules, priorities, resource plans, and entry and exit criteria.
• Coordinate functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Ensure appropriate test coverage across impacted Workday business processes and integrations.
• Monitor testing progress, identify risks and dependencies, and communicate status, issues, and recommendations to project leadership.
• Lead testing across relevant Workday functional areas, such as Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Financial Management, and other applicable modules.
• Validate Workday business processes, workflows, security roles, reporting, data conversions, and system configurations.
• Develop and execute test scenarios covering business requirements, positive and negative testing, exception handling, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate test execution across business users, functional teams, technical teams, and other testing resources.
• Track test cases, execution results, defects, and remediation activities using established test management tools.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading testing efforts for Workday applications, implementations, enhancements, or ongoing support.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and traceability documentation.
• Proven ability to coordinate testing activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience managing test execution, defect tracking, issue triage, and testing status reporting.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Opkey for Workday automated testing.
• Experience with other test automation tools and frameworks.
• Workday certification or relevant Workday functional training.
• Experience testing Workday integrations, reports, security configurations, and business process workflows.