Senior Workday QA & Testing Manager / Consultant

• Exceptional Project Management and Communication Skills. Track record of on-time, on-budget, delivery of Workday testing projects.

• Project Management & Test Management

• Workday Systems Implementation Management, Testing Integrations - Payroll, EIB, Web Service

• Weekly, Bi-weekly, Salaried, Commissions, Stock and Union payrolls Payroll Journal Entries and Reconciliations G/L and Bank Reconciliations, Financial Reporting, Month-end close, and Budgeting

• Payroll Tax, Sales and Use, Property Taxes, Quarterly and Yearend Tax Filings and Reporting

• Payroll Systems Conversions and Implementations, SOW Development Human Resource Management Analysis and compliance reviews.

Recent project experience:

Client 1) Workday Testing Manager

• Managing project testing  activities for Workday (HCM& Financials) system implementation for project timelines, resources.

• Weekly status reporting to Steering Committee.

• Managing the client’s Workday testing team and business testers. ESS and MSS.

• Created HCM and FIN business requirements test matrix.

• Recruiting-Position Management, Taleo-Talent

• Core HCM/Payroll; Payroll Interfaces.

• IT Testing and Test management processes and procedures

• Writing Testing Strategy and Test Plan for Functional, End to End, UAT, Payroll Parallel, Gold Validation and  Cutover activities, Staff Training and Test Management Processes and Procedures.

• EIB, Core Connectors, Configuration, Data Conversion

• Managed Systems/interfaces for inbound and outbound.

• Data Conversion from the current ADP, Peoplesoft systems to Workday.

• Partnered with client’s system implementer Engagement Manager, coordinated across all business areas to oversee the effort of integrations, UAT, Parallel Payroll and Gold Validation and Cutover Testing.  Accountable for the tracking of all defects, resolution, and escalation of risks identified during testing in Quality Center and Kainos testing tool. Generating reports for daily statuses and reporting to Steering Committee.

• Signing off on all test plans and test report and directs the activities of testers on a day-to-day basis based on the project plan and required tasks.

• Quality Assurance Test Data Management, Quality Center, Sharepoint 2013. Operation Readiness planning, training and execution prior to Go-LIVE.

Client 2) Workday Project/Test Manager

• Managing a team of 15 on Peoplesoft 9.1 HCM/Financials to Workday 24 for 14,000 employees.

• Project Plans, Managing Budget and Resources and Timelines.

• Domestic and International.

• Payroll Compensation, HCM, Recruiting, Talent, HR Benefits.

• Configuration, Integrations, Data Analysis and Mapping.

• Time and Labor, Payroll Parallel Testing-Test Plans, Test Cases, Cutover.

• Operational Readiness Training.

• Defect Management-Troubleshooting, Resolution-ALM (HP) Quality Center.

• Test Reporting.