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Workday Payroll Test Lead

Randstad Digital Americas, Seguin, TX, United States


Senior Payroll Tester - Workday Payroll, Leave, Time, Absence

Ensures the accuracy, compliance, and reliability of payroll processes within the Workday HCM platform. This role focuses on testing Workday's Payroll and related modules (Time, Absence, HCM) to meet business requirements and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute end-to-end testing of Workday configurations, especially Payroll and Timekeeping modules.

Develop and maintain test plans, cases, and scripts aligned with business needs and Workday best practices.

Conduct multiple testing types: unit, integration, system, UAT, regression, performance, security, and payroll-specific testing.

Identify and mitigate defects early in the development cycle, working with developers and functional teams.

Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, validate workflows, and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Use test management tools (e.g., JIRA, SmartSheets, DevOps, Zephyr) to track defects, manage test cases, and generate reports.

Support parallel testing runs to validate changes without disrupting live payroll.

Participate in Agile ceremonies and maintain QA standards, documentation, and reporting.

Troubleshoot payroll-related issues, investigate root causes, and recommend solutions.

Qualifications

10+ years experience in US payroll policies, practices, including PTO, leaves, absence, time and attendance, and scheduling.

3 years experience with Global payroll.

3 years experience in implementing payroll systems and testing for payroll systems.

Location: Seguin, Texas.

Job type: Contract to Perm.

Salary: $45-60 per hour.

Work hours: 8 am to 5 pm.

Education: Bachelor's degree.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

Benefits
Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings; short-term disability; and a 401(k) plan (all benefits are based on eligibility). Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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