Automation Engineer

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About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence

Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.

Our Product Development and QA organization spans across various products, serving a wide range of customers worldwide. Every project you undertake with us contributes to Workday's outstanding culture, core values, and dedication to excellence. We're proud to have received numerous awards and accolades for our products, outstanding workplace culture, and commitment to sustainability. With your talent, we continue to lead the way in cloud technology and make a difference in the lives of our customers worldwide

About the Role

We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer, with strong automation background, who is passionate about quality and building world class applications with the cutting edge technologies. As a Test Automation Engineer you will have the opportunity to work with Developers and Product Managers to help build a new generation of on-demand Enterprise solutions designed to meet the needs of today's global businesses. We're solving some tough problems in finding and organizing content, relevance, relatedness, integrations, infrastructure, and enterprise search. We build high-quality applications and micro-services and also care deeply about how our services operate in production with attention paid to testing, monitoring, logging and delivery.

Responsibilities and objectives of the role include:

• Be a quality evangelist, get your team thinking about quality, engaged in the test planning and automation process

• Work directly with agile software development teams to incorporate test strategies throughout the development process

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, developers and other team members to identify and implement test plans

• Collaborate with your QA team members on finding the best Automation strategies, defining quality and automation metrics, provide customer support

• Define test plans for new and existing functionalities, projects and identify and execute on the automation plans 

• Contribute to design and implementation of automation infrastructure and creation of automated test suites

• Work with the team to ensure test automation is done as part of development

• Manually execute tests for specific workflows when proper automation is difficult or impossible 

• Take ownership of weekly deploy preparation and verification to improve release confidence

• Responsible for the manual and exploratory testing 

• Monitor and triage bugs, reproducing and investigating

• Embrace Workday values and diversity through our VIBE strategy - Value, Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of proven experience in Quality Assurance and Automation testing of SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise applications like Workday

• 3+ years experience embedding test automation in CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of continuous integration and tooling, Jenkins, Bamboo 

• A degree in a computer related field or equivalent 

• Experience in an Agile environment

• Design test plans and support testing tools and processes

• Experience with testing Mobile applications 

•  Must also have experience in functional and non-functional testing

• Strong knowledge of the Automation tools and frameworks, such as Selenium or Cypress, Swift

• Experience with GCP and AWS

• Experince with testing with RESTful API testing using tools like Postman

• Experience of the TestRail, JIRA or other test management tools

• Able to deep dive into technical areas and also up level communications to a broader audience

• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration

Other Qualifications:

• You are a problem-solver and investigator, willing to follow the clues to uncover a problem's root cause

• Motivation to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and make data-driven decisions between opposing priorities

• A strong sense of customer compassion

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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