Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Company: Workday
Company: Workday
Location: Canada, BC, Vancouver
Commitment: Full Time
Posted on: 2023-05-11 18:23
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 TeamThe Software Development Engineer in Test team for Workday Analytics is a diverse group of engineers. We spend our time writing software to break software and increase development productivity. At the core, we are responsible for the quality of the software that we ship, and we take pride in doing so. We build and scale our test infrastructure to match the growth of our product, keeping them fast, reliable, and robust, from end to end. We use proprietary and open-source automated testing tools to support our rapid and continuous development/test/deployment release cycles. We each bring a diverse set of skills to the team which makes our work meaningful and collaborative. We value innovation, integrity and we care about our customers. We want them to experience the best of class analytics product that we could possibly build, but we are also flexible, fair, and considerate of our teammates. By joining the team, you can expect that you will make a meaningful contribution. You can expect an inclusive, diverse, and fun team that will challenge you, support you, and help you grow.About the RoleDo what you love. Love what you do.As part of this team, you will ensure that the quality of our products exceeds the expectations of our customers.  Your expertise in automated testing of highly interactive web application and large-scale distributed systems will help transform the way we collect, view, and analyze enterprise data. The work we do is technical, challenging, and interesting. We are looking for test engineers who have a quality mindset, love to break software, automate testing and who want to understand how parts work together to make the Workday system function.Roles and ResponsibilitiesYou are at the right place if playing around with data is your passionYou will be validating the various aspects of the data using high quality visualization and always ready to challenge the resultsOwn the end-to-end delivery of the feature starting from planning, execution, and automationYou will be working closely with highly skilled developers and designersBe fearless in raising concerns when quality is not as expectedTesting and validating the application through back end APIsDevelop automation test scripts using WATS, proprietary automation frameworkBuild and maintain framework and inventory of automated test suitePrimary point of contact for triaging automation failures and bring them to a resolutionCollect automation failure metrics, analyze root cause, and recommend corrective measuresDevelop expertise in our product solutions, and use that expertise and your experience to help design and qualify the solution as a wholeWith all the technical expertise, what we are looking into you is a great team player. Our team is made up of highly motivated and skilled engineers but at the same time we ensure that fun never goes away and we feel accomplished at the end of the day.About YouBasic Qualifications:MS in Computer Science or Computer Applications and 2 years building and maintaining framework and inventory of automated test suites or BS in Computer Science or Computer Applications and 3 years’ experience building and maintaining framework and inventory of automated test suites.2 years’ experience working with CI/CD and experience in building efficient, effective, and reliable regression testing pipeline. Practitioner and team advocate of standard methodologies in keeping pipeline healthy.2 years’ experience in testing of API or database layer.2 years’ experience with debugging skills.2 years’ experience playing a customer advocate role and working closely with the team to ensure their testing strategy and environments resemble closely to customer use cases.Other Qualifications:Experience in performance testing is a plusAre you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
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