Key Requirements:

End-to-End Workday HCM Testing Leadership

• Own and drive full lifecycle Workday HCM testing activities on the customer side, including System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT, and Go-Live readiness.

• Lead and structure all HCM testing workstreams, ensuring clear governance, coordination, and accountability.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, plans, schedules, and execution frameworks aligned to overall program milestones.

• Actively participate in hands-on test execution, defect management, triage, retesting cycles, and readiness assessments.

Advisory & Consulting Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders and program leadership, providing best-practice guidance across Workday HCM Core configuration, testing strategy, and operational readiness.

• Apply deep expertise in Workday implementation methodology, understanding both its strengths and limitations, and proactively enhance standard processes where additional rigor is required.

• Identify program risks and gaps early, offering pragmatic, solution-oriented mitigation strategies to maintain delivery momentum.

Documentation & Operational Readiness

• Support the development of key production operating model artifacts, ensuring testing outputs align with post-go-live support requirements.

• Contribute to the creation of high-quality documentation supporting:

  • End-user and administrator training

  • Transition to steady-state production operations

Collaboration & Regulatory Alignment

• Partner closely with functional, technical, and business stakeholders across the U.S. and Canada.

• Ensure testing strategies and outputs reflect U.S. and Canada regulatory and operational requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Workday HCM Advisor, Test Lead, or equivalent role across full lifecycle Workday implementations.

• Proven ability to balance hands-on delivery with leadership and governance responsibilities.

• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM modules and end-to-end business processes.

• Deep understanding of Workday implementation methodology and where enhanced controls or artifacts may be required.

• Demonstrated consulting mindset — advisory, pragmatic, and delivery-focused.

• Experience leading testing through go-live and transition into production support.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting U.S. and Canada-centric Workday implementations.

• Prior involvement in training enablement and production support documentation.

• Experience operating within complex, multi-workstream, or large enterprise programs.