Sr. Software Engineer - Quality Lead

Your work days are brighter here.

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

Do you want to join a fast-paced startup environment, working with modern technology to tackle the next generation of complex problems? Would you enjoy the autonomy and agility of an innovative small team while benefiting from the financial strength of a growing market leader named in the Best Companies to Work For by Fortune?

If so, we are looking for a Lodestar Platform Quality Lead who is passionate about collaborating within a team that is building scalable user experiences in frequent iteration with other architects and engineers. Our organization is proving out new ways of building by creating a next generation platform to support next generation applications. Our goal is to ship an entirely new product to Workday customers, and then the sky's the limit! Could this be you? If so, read on.

About the Role

The Lodestar Platform Quality Lead is an experienced sr. software engineer, who will create QA processes, tooling frameworks, and automation that helps ensure that the Lodestar Platform is of the utmost quality for our internal and external customers. The Platform Quality Lead will work horizontally supporting multiple engineering groups both in the Platform org as well as with our customer org: Applications. The Platform Quality Lead is organized and methodical, technically strong, and has a passion for delivering high quality, reliable software.

The Platform Quality Lead will:

• Understand the broad Lodestar Platform system and how all the subsystems fit together in order to create end to end test cases, particularly edge cases and failure cases. 

• Work with developers, devops and SREs to build automation tools to test appropriately

• Author smoke tests and implement them in order to promote builds to production

• Automate / streamline / maintain the QA Process to work alongside our CI/CD development process

• Organize and facilitate “group testing” where various teams across the organization convene to broadly test the Lodestar system (including Platform & App developers, product managers and internal customers). 

• Work with product managers closely so that our quality initiatives align with future planned product management work within the org 

• Work collaboratively with Lodestar App QA engineers and product managers to understand customer issues and create reproducible steps so developers can better triage and roll out fixes

• Build the overall quality framework and process that define how product should be tested and promoted to production

• Design and execute production sanity testing for when new code hits production

• Be the owner of what gets released to production; coordinate with Workday at large about rollouts and assuring we are in sync with rest of the company

• Develop testing best practices and tooling standards to be adhered to by all Lodestar developers

• Have knowledge of automated front end testing technologies like selenium or similar

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

• 2+ years of quality engineering experience, preferably in the realm of automated testing

Other Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or related field

• Experience writing automated tests in a Continuous Integration (CI) system

• Strong knowledge of a scripting lang