Senior Associate Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

We are hiring for an SDET role within Workday’s Adaptive Planning organisation. Our Adaptive Planning application provides best-in-class planning solutions to a diverse range of customers. This role will involve working alongside other SDETs within Planning Platform teams to help evolve our enterprise SaaS application into a modern and scalable Planning solution.

About the Role

You will collaborate with Developers, System Architects, and other QA engineers on highly technical initiatives with a focus on Quality through all steps of the SDLC to prevent application and configuration related vulnerabilities. Working within our strong community of SDET’s you will also contribute and enhance test case repositories, automated tests, frameworks, and tool sets to meet best practices and standards.

This role will involve working across a broad spectrum of services and functionality ensuring quality from a functional, performance, infrastructure and security perspective. You should be happy taking part in technical design discussions with other SDET’s, developers or architects to ensure a strong understanding of test scope and test approach and be comfortable asking questions and raising concerns. As an SDET you  will be responsible for raising defects, tracking the relevant fixes and deploying new builds to your test environment. 

Strong interpersonal and communication skills will be required as this job involves interacting with multiple teams. You will become part of a team where Quality is considered paramount across the full engineering organisation and plays a pivotal role in deciding how we ship software.

About You

Basic Qualifications: 

• 2+ years programming in Java or similar object-oriented languages

• At least 3 years working in a QA capacity

• At least 2 years working with Automation tools like Selenium and Rest Assured

• Experience writing Test Strategy docs

Other Qualifications:

• Previous years experience or a strong familiarity with CI/CD

• Good experience with Jenkins and/or similar orchestration tools.

• Previous experience of testing database changes or similar projects focused on the database layer

• Exposure to Kubernetes, AWS, Docker

• A passion for learning new technologies and solving complex problems.

What you will learn: 

• Inner workings of a mature QA CI/CD pipeline process covering broad test scope and permutations

• Cloud native computing and how it can be leveraged to scale Quality initiatives

• To share responsibility for quality with the whole Engineering team

• And far more..

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Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to mak