Programme Test Manager (Workday)

Overview:

You will direct and manage the full project-life cycle and set standards for assignments and applications, with a primary focus on Workday implementations. This role requires extensive, hands-on experience delivering Workday programmes, including deep involvement in configuration, integrations, and end-to-end testing strategy.

You will be responsible for the delivery of defined work packages to the client, providing effective leadership to teams and offering expert guidance to key business users, ensuring quality outcomes across all phases of Workday deployment and optimisation.

Responsibilities:

Develop strategies and direct teams with diverse scope, ensuring alignment to Workday programme objectives

Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, and resource budgets, and are formally signed off

Use project planning tools and contribute to the identification and planning of future resource needs, particularly for Workday delivery capabilities

Own the overall test plan design and processes for Workday implementations, applying, articulating, and constructing business-specific end-to-end scenarios; define standards for test script development, deployment, and reuse

Specify the test environment for full lifecycle testing, ensuring alignment with Workday business processes and integration requirements

Consult with key business stakeholders to ensure Workday solution design is optimised for testability and quality outcomes

Allocate and coordinate test schedules, work, and resource plans; manage progress of all activities against the plan, ensuring delivery deadlines are met across Workday programmes

Provide quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, with the ability to execute the vision, goals, and direction of Workday-focused teams

Diagnose problems and probe underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions within Workday environments

Proactively anticipate and prevent issues, facilitating stakeholder buy-in and guiding the implementation of corrective and/or preventative actions for complex Workday-related challenges

Create quality assurance procedures and user instructions to support reusable processes and tools aligned to Workday delivery models

Define and implement quality process improvements and metrics with a focus on defect prevention in Workday programmes

Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies at project or release level, particularly for Workday implementations

Contribute to proof of concept exercises and support sales with pre-sales collateral, bringing strong Workday domain expertise

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

ISTQB Advanced advantageous

Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

Project Management qualification

Essential skills:

Proven senior-level QA leadership on large-scale Workday implementations

Extensive hands-on experience with Workday implementation projects (mandatory), including configuration, integrations, and deployment phases

Strong knowledge of Workday architecture and configuration to support risk-based testing approaches

Demonstrated experience testing Workday integrations with end-to-end data validation

Expertise in defining and executing Workday-specific test strategies, including SIT, UAT, regression, security, and data migration testing

Track record of building and leading Workday QA teams, upskilling testers, and establishing Workday QA best practices

Strong collaboration with Workday Functional, Integration, and Client stakeholders to align quality outcomes with business objectives

Experience in defect governance and quality reporting within Workday programmes, including root-cause analysis and executive-level reporting

Experience introducing QA tools, automation approaches, or process improvements suited to Workday’s configuration-driven model

Experience:

Excellent client-facing skills

People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions

Team work and emotional intelligence

Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set

Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance

High value on openness and transparency

Excellent communication and presentations skills

Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.

Benefits:

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges

We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to their skills and take part in inspiring projects

Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses

Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!

Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.