Workday Test Consultant – SA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Provide testing services to clients through test consultancy, preparation, and management.

• Evaluate scope, process designs, configurations, and business priorities to determine testing requirements and risks.

• Assist in developing test strategies and planning, encompassing objectives, scope, roles, governance, environments, data, criteria, reporting, and delivery schedules.

• Engage in test design workshops and create traceable unit and end-to-end testing scenarios.

• Oversee and track client-led test executions, including progress updates, evidence collection, addressing blockers, and retesting processes.

• Aid in issue triage, ownership, status monitoring, investigation, and coordination of resolutions.

• Maintain testing information and generate status updates and dashboards.

• Contribute to quality assurance gates, go-live preparedness, and test closure activities.

• Clarify Workday testing methodologies and deliverables to clients.

• Provide support to customer testers and subject matter experts.

• Enhance testing, Workday, and business-domain knowledge through project involvement and ongoing education.

• Refine testing methodologies, scenario assets, templates, tools, and operational processes.

• Collaborate with clients, Kainos implementation teams, and external implementation partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Authentic enthusiasm for establishing a long-term career in software testing.

• Experience in or familiarity with manual testing, quality assurance, business analysis, software delivery, or test consultancy.

• Possess an analytical and curious mindset.

• Interest in comprehending business processes and systems.

• Exceptional attention to detail.

• Capable of producing accurate and high-quality results.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Confident in engaging with clients and colleagues across distributed teams.

• Customer-centric and collaborative attitude.

• Eagerness to ask questions, learn from others, and share knowledge.

• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and promptly address risks or blockers.

• Capable of working independently as well as part of a team, including in a remote setting.

• Proactive and positive attitude towards learning new tools, methods, business domains, and technologies.

• Strong commercial awareness.

• Understanding of scope, quality, risk, and delivery commitments.

• Desirable: familiarity with test planning, scenario design, client-led test execution coordination, issue management, regression testing, or test reporting.

• Desirable: current Workday certification.

• Desirable: experience with cloud-based business applications such as ERP, HCM, Financials, Payroll, or CRM.

• Desirable: experience with test management or collaboration tools like Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, or Jira.

• Relevant qualifications or degrees are advantageous but not mandatory; equivalent practical experience is equally valued.

🏝️ Benefits

• People-first culture.

• Support for growth and development.

• Coaching and constructive feedback.

• Opportunities for continuous learning.

• Supportive and collaborative team environment.

• Flexible/remote working options.

• Recruitment accommodations or adjustments.