Workday Quality Assurance Lead

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The Workday Quality Assurance Lead is responsible for leading and executing end-to-end quality assurance activities across Wipfli's Workday implementation, ensuring alignment with business requirements and successful delivery of high-quality solutions. The position focuses on leading QA strategy, planning, coordination, and oversight. This person will also participate in hands-on execution as needed during high-volume periods, issue resolution, and major projects.

The Workday Quality Asurance Lead can work in person, remote, or in a hybrid environment.

• 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 thedefectlifecycle, 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 toQAbest practices, standards, and governance processes

• 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 Dev Opsand experience automating Workday functional testing
• Strong experience in functional and end-to-end testing methodologies
• Hands-onexpertisein 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

• Experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) implementations
• Background in professional services, accounting, financial services, oranothermatrixed business environment
• Workday PRO certification(s)
• Experience coordinating with distributed, offshore, or third-party delivery teams
• Formal QA certification, such as ISTQB, CSQA, or Agile Testing certification, with working knowledge of Agile frameworks. Product certifications such as CSPO, PSPO, orSAFePOPM are a plus
• Experience across multiple Workday modules, including HCM, Finance, Integrations, and Payroll
• Familiarity with integration testing…