Payroll Parallel Testing and Validation Lead

The Opportunity:

A Federal shared services provider delivers payroll for approximately 605000 Federal employees across more than 150 agencies. To address inefficiencies in fragmented and aging payroll systems it is implementing a scalable cloud-based payroll solution that improves automation data quality userexperienceand compliance with implementation for the full customer base targeted within eighteen months.

This position supports the core implementation call order which covers discovery and fit-gap analysis solution design and configuration data migration interface development testing and parallel payroll validation and cutover throughhypercare. In this role you will develop and execute the parallel payroll test approach that compares legacy and modernized payroll results analyze and resolve variances and produce the test evidence supporting the Governments cutover decision.

Work is performed remotely from within the United States with periodic on-site presence as the assignment requires.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the parallel payroll test plan including cycles population comparisonapproachand variance tolerances

• Execute parallel payroll test cycles and document results for each cycle

• Perform gross-to-net comparison between legacy and modernized payroll results

• Analyze and classify payroll variances to root cause

• Document defects and coordinate resolution with the configurationconversionand interface teams

• Maintain the discrepancy log and supporting audit trail

• Prepare test evidence and reporting for Government review and go/no-go decisions

• Provide knowledge transfer and training on the comparison approach and supporting tools

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant experience.Additionalexperience may be substituted for degree.

• 7 or more years in system testingvalidationor reconciliation including direct experience with payroll parallel testing payroll validation or financial system parallel-run reconciliation on a replacement or migration

• Experience designing a comparison and reconciliation approach population grain classificationschemeand tolerances rather than executing a plan designed by someone else

• Experience defining and negotiating acceptance criteria and variance tolerances with a client in advance of results

• Variance root-cause analysis across system boundaries separating defects in one system from defects in another and from acceptable differences

• Working SQL and hands-on experience comparing data across two systems at population scale whether through purpose-built tooling or a platform supplied by the program

Desired:

• Federal payroll knowledge Title 5 and non-Title 5 pay retirement and benefits premiumpayand statutory caps

• Prior experience at a federal payroll shared service provider or on a federal payroll system migration

• Large commercial payroll conversion at scale with full-population comparison or general ledger migration validation

• Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM or Cloud Payroll or payroll validation on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) PayrollPeopleSoftor SAP Payroll

• Test automation development where the comparison logic was the deliverable