Kainos
Kainos
Kainos is a technology company that helps organizations improve how they operate through digital services and Workday solutions. Its expertise includes enterprise content management, application management, systems integration, and digital transformation, with work spanning healthcare, commercial, and public-sector environments. The company combines technical delivery with long-term customer relationships, developing and managing systems intended to make services more effective for both organizations and the people they support. Job seekers exploring Kainos can find opportunities connected to software, digital transformation, enterprise technology, and Workday-focused delivery.

Workday Test Consultant (Senior Associate) – Remote, UK

Help Kainos deliver reliable Workday implementations through structured testing and customer support. You will prepare scenarios, coordinate test execution, manage issues, and support go-live readiness.

Description

  • Provide customer-facing test consultancy, preparation, and management services
  • Assess scope, process designs, configuration, and business priorities to identify testing needs and risks
  • Support test strategy and planning across objectives, scope, roles, governance, environments, data, criteria, reporting, and delivery plans
  • Join test design workshops and create traceable unit and end-to-end scenarios
  • Coordinate and track client-led execution, including progress, evidence, blockers, and retesting
  • Assist with issue triage, ownership, tracking, investigation, and resolution coordination
  • Maintain testing records and prepare status updates and dashboards
  • Support quality gates, go-live readiness, and test closure activities
  • Explain Workday testing methods and deliverables to customers
  • Assist customer testers and subject matter experts
  • Build testing, Workday, and business-domain expertise through project work and ongoing learning
  • Refine testing methods, scenario assets, templates, tools, and working practices
  • Work closely with customers, Kainos implementation teams, and third-party implementation partners

Requirements

  • A genuine interest in developing a long-term career in software testing
  • Experience or exposure in manual testing, quality assurance, business analysis, software delivery, or test consulting
  • An analytical, inquisitive approach to problem-solving
  • Interest in how business processes and systems work
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work
  • Clear and effective written and verbal communication
  • Confidence collaborating with customers and colleagues across distributed teams
  • A customer-focused and cooperative working style
  • Willingness to ask questions, learn from others, and share knowledge
  • Ability to organise and prioritise work, meet deadlines, and raise risks or blockers promptly
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively, including remotely
  • A proactive, positive attitude toward learning new tools, methods, business domains, and technologies
  • Good commercial awareness
  • Understanding of scope, quality, risk, and delivery commitments
  • Desirable: knowledge of test planning, scenario design, client-led execution coordination, issue management, regression testing, or test reporting
  • Desirable: current Workday certification
  • Desirable: experience with cloud business applications, including ERP, HCM, Financials, Payroll, or CRM
  • Desirable: experience using test management or collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, or Jira
  • A relevant qualification or degree is helpful but not required; equivalent practical experience is valued equally

Benefits

  • People-centred culture
  • Support for professional growth and development
  • Coaching and regular feedback
  • Ongoing learning opportunities
  • Supportive, collaborative team environment
  • Flexible remote-working arrangement
  • Recruitment accommodations and adjustments available

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