HR Testing

**HR Testing / Quality Assurance Lead** Location: Guadalajara SSC, Mexico Reports to Program Manager, HR Digital Solutions, Vendor Management, Insights & Reporting Services S/he will establish/refine testing methodology, standards and tool/templates to test system changes in a consistent manner, and elevate solutions quality. This is a hand-on Lead role, that will perform process/systems testing, as well as manage testing serviced delivery from team members. **Core Responsibilities** - Define / refine HR testing methodology for HR processes and systems including, but not limited to Workday HCM, ServiceNow HRSD, PowerBI. - Develop quality assurance standards, and related testing tools / templates for test planning, test scenarios/scripts, issue management, and other testing activities - Manage all testing activities on projects and operational solution improvements - test planning, resource / task allocation, testing services delivery, status updates, issue/risk management and related tasks. - Partner with various HR, IT, Vendor and GSS teams to plan and execute testing activities in alignment with the Governance process - Manage resources effectively to ensure utilization is maximized, aligned to plan, budget and to timeframes - Collaborate with GPOs, Solution Architects, and other internal / external project team members to understand requirements and user stories; coach testing team in outlining testing approach, mapping out test scenarios and cases, reviewing test scripts, testing data management and designing overall testing plan. - Identify test automation opportunities, then develop and implement automation scripts - Lead a variety (function/system/user acceptance) of testing services delivery; perform hands-on testing if/as needed - Accountable for services delivery quality - review and approve teams’ testing deliverables - Provide leadership and guidance to testing team on best practices - Coach and mentor team members in developing HR process and systems testing - Serve as point-of-escalation for testing services delivery challenges; lead team members to address issues and meet services SLAs (time, quality, effectiveness) and established performance expectations. Engage Sr. Management / Leadership teams as needed - Minimum Requirements_ - Bachelor's degree in HR, Computer Science, or a related field - Multi-lingual fluency: Advanced English (required) plus one or more of the following: Spanish, Portuguese - 3+ years of experience in HRIS, HR Shared Services or Operations; including knowledge of core HR processes and/or policies - In addition to HR processes and systems testing, must have experience testing HR data/reports, define data audits and drive data quality - Must have significant HR process knowledge in the following domains - Core HR and Employee Data Administration, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Compensation. - 2+ years of experience testing with modern HCM solutions such as Workday / Oracle / SAP HCM, ServiceNow HRSD - 2+ years Project Management experience - developing project plans / workplans, estimate work effort, status reporting, issue/ risk management etc. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Experience working in a distributed global team environment - Experience / ability to interact effectively with a variety of stakeholders - GPOs, Solution Architects, IT teams, Vendors etc. - Proficient in use of applicable HR technology and MS Office, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to work non-standard business hours, in a global business environment - Desired Requirements, Behaviors and Attributes:_ - HRIS Analyst or Testing experience with Workday HCM and ServiceNow - HRIS Analyst or Testing experience on a new HCM platform implementation or major project(s) - Experience leading / defining testing approach to deliver positive employee experience outcomes - Experience with automated testing tools, including developing automated test scripts - Hands-on experience with Workday data entry and transaction processing. Understands the flow of data and system integrations - Business Process Design experience - Change Management experience - Strong customer service and team collaboration orientation - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - Strong work ethic, integrity and personal accountability The **HR Testing /Quality Assurance Lead** will focus on reviewing the needs of the requester > Will participate in workshops > They will be the intermediary with the vendor > Will perform tests (Creation of Test scripts > Testing in test and production environments > Coordination of user testers > Regression testing > Smoke Testing, UAT, documentation of tests performed) > Will participate in all the dynamics of Workday and ServiceNow upgrades 1 to 2 times per year > Will prepare training sessions derived from the project to present globally in English. The ability to create presentations in Po