Workday Test Manager
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Workday Test Manager leading client-side testing for enterprise Workday implementations at The Groove. Coordinating stakeholders, test execution, defects, and go-live readiness.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the overall client-side testing strategy, plan, schedule, and deliverables for Workday implementations
- Coordinate client participation in system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, and end-to-end business process testing
- Partner with business process owners and subject matter experts to develop, review, and validate test scenarios and scripts
- Ensure test scenarios accurately reflect business processes, requirements, integrations, and expected outcomes
- Coordinate testing resources, assignments, timelines, and execution across functional and technical workstreams
- Collaborate with implementation partners to align testing activities with overall project milestones and deliverables
- Manage defect tracking, prioritization, escalation, and resolution in partnership with project teams
- Facilitate testing status meetings, defect triage sessions, and readiness reviews
- Monitor testing progress, completion rates, defect trends, and overall testing readiness
- Communicate testing status, risks, issues, and dependencies to project leadership and key stakeholders
- Validate that critical business processes, integrations, security requirements, reporting, and data scenarios have been appropriately tested
- Coordinate UAT sign-off with business process owners and project leadership
- Support go-live readiness assessments, cutover activities, and post-production stabilization
- Identify opportunities to improve testing processes, documentation, and overall project execution
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise technology implementations, software testing, or quality assurance
- 3+ years of experience managing testing activities for large-scale ERP or HCM implementations
- Experience supporting Workday implementations, including testing coordination and execution
- Strong understanding of SIT, UAT, regression testing, end-to-end testing, and defect management
- Experience developing and managing test plans, test scenarios, scripts, defect logs, and testing status reports
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional business stakeholders, technical teams, and implementation partners
- Strong project management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to manage competing priorities, identify risks, and drive accountability in a fast-paced consulting environment
- Preferred: Prior experience serving as a client-side Test Manager for Workday implementations
- Preferred: Experience with Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, or related functional areas
- Preferred: Understanding of Workday business processes, integrations, security, reporting, and data conversion
- Preferred: Experience working directly with system integrators and third-party implementation partners
- Preferred: Familiarity with testing and defect management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms
- Preferred: Experience supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives or enterprise system deployments














