Test Team Lead (Workday)

Multi-year contract available with a leading employer in St. Louis, MO!

12 months+

W2 only, NO CORP TO CORP

Hybrid-3 days/week on site in St. Louis. Must be local, or willing to relocate before starting. No relocation assistance available.

Competitive rate, with benefits available

Must have 2+ years recent Workday testing experience.

Position Overview

S3 is 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.

The Workday Test Lead will collaborate with business stakeholders, Workday functional teams, IT professionals, developers, and project managers to support successful implementations, enhancements, system updates, and ongoing releases.

Key Responsibilities

Test Leadership and Strategy

• 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.

Workday Application Testing

• 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.
• Validate inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and other enterprise applications.
• Support testing of Workday releases, patches, configuration changes, and production fixes.
• Collaborate with Workday functional analysts and business users to validate expected results and resolve testing questions.

Test Automation and Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive, high-value, and regression test scenarios.
• Collaborate with technical teams to develop and maintain automated testing scripts and reusable test assets.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, reduce manual effort, and increase testing efficiency.
• Support the development of repeatable testing processes for ongoing Workday releases and enhancements.
• Experience with Opkey automated testing is a strong plus. Candidates with experience using other test automation platforms are also encouraged to apply.

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.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive testing activities to completion.
• Experience working in an Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environment.