QA Specialist

Title: Quality Assurance Specialist

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Month Contract

Job Description: 

Quality Assurance Specialist (QA) will partner with functional area coordinators to support the implementation of Workday HCM End to End Testing Cycles. The QA Specialist will serve as the subject matter expert for the development and review the project deliverables, design, and policy decisions specific to the HCM module.

 

Obligations 

 

The Quality Assurance Specialist will be responsible for: 

• Lead the coordination of QA testing for Workday HCM and oversee the timely completion of deliverables required by the project plan. 

• Provide subject matter expertise in reviewing the test scenarios and working with the functional coordinators in reviewing their current written scenarios to determine if the scenario is written the most effective and efficient ways.  

• Partner with functional area coordinators to support the pre-cutover, cutover, and post-cutover tasks of ensuring configuration and data conversion has been correctly migrated from legacy systems to Workday.

• Assist the functional coordinators and Team Workday in answering Workday technical questions that are not part of a BP.  Ex:  How to create shortcuts or apps in Workday.

 

Required Skills

Candidates submitted by respondents must have the following skills:

 

• Four plus (4+) years of Quality Assurance experience that includes writing scripts (testing scenarios).

• Experience with Workday implementations

• Workday technical resource with deep Workday configuration knowledge in all HCM functional areas (Core, Comp, Payroll, and Time/Absence, and EIBs in all areas)

• Assistance with Time and Absence implementation

• Ability to diagnose and fix issues.  

• Experience working with a non-technical audience on user-based testing 

• Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements.

• Ability to organize ideas; conceptualize problems; collect, analyze, categorize, and interpret relevant and irrelevant data using a variety of techniques and methodologies for resolving complex issues and providing written documentation.

• Must have experience working with large companies.

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, and the ability to communicate with a diverse set of stakeholders from the business and technical communities.

• Demonstrated competency in Microsoft applications, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday HCM experience

• Higher Education experience

• Government or Union environment experience