WPP is hiring a

Workday FINS/PSA Test Lead

Chennai, India

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

The Workday Test & Release team provide full testing and release/tenant management to all parts of the Workday programme in WPP. In workday test team, you will define test strategy, test scope, plan, and estimates, create test concepts, support in test design, test case creation, test automation, test execution and reporting on test progress and quality status for several projects including country rollouts as well as BAU enhancements.

In this role you will be a member of the Global QA Hub, working within the WorkDay Team, and reporting to the Workday Test & Release Manager.

 

What you'll be doing:

  • Lead the entire project starting from scope, planning, execution, support, and closure of the project in Testing (FINS & PSA).
  • Performing risk assessments and producing Test documentation e.g., Test Approaches, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and other related items.
  • Preparing and executing Testing for Project & BAU fixes/changes, to ensure they are completed in accordance with the Global Test Strategy
  • Ensure that reporting and communication of plans, progress and issues is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
  • Developing, Executing & Maintaining Manual and Automated scripts in the existing tool.
  • Responsible for entire E2E testing life cycle of the country rollout / BAU – For the entry and exit checklist of Unit Test, SIT/E2E, Regression and UAT until the Sign off each phase.
  • Accountable for maintaining up to date testing documentation.
  • Safeguard global standards and values against important requests and priorities.
  • Working with 3rd party teams to ensure testing is delivered correctly and on-time.
  • Setting up Jira/Zephyr for Project & BAU Testing Activities.
  • Able to communicate complex issues in a digestible form (to both Business & Technical teams)

What you'll need:

  • Experience of Workday FINS/PSA functional areas (Financial Accounting, Customer Accounts, Business Assets, Expenses, Banking and Settlement, Supplier Accounts, Procurement, Projects and Financial Reporting), including integration exposure on legacy and third-party systems is mandatory.
  • Experience of data validation across Workday modules working with different Op Co's.
  • Experience of Testing throughout the full SDLC (Management & Execution)
  • Ability to clearly report status and highlight risks.
  • Working knowledge of test management tools.
  • Excellent technical understanding of SAAS ERP platforms and processes
  • Development and maintenance of test automation tools.
  • Manage multiple streams of work simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
  • Working alongside outsourced resources and teams
  • Delivery focused, with high energy and drive.
  • Strong risk awareness skills and management of risk
  • Creative solutioning and strong problem-solving skills with agility for fast and simple solutions
  • Credibility, professionalism, and strong personal integrity.
  • Ability to mentor new team members from wide and varied backgrounds.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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