Sr. SDET Engineer

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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

We are a diverse team, that builds and handles the CI/CD pipelines for authentication and security features, ensuring that code changes are efficiently tested, and deployed. Our primary focus is on maintaining stability, improving automation, and encouraging continuous improvement to empower security teams to deliver features more rapidly and with greater assurance.

About the Role

Join our team as a Sr. SDET Engineer (P4) and play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and quality of our platform. You will work closely with development engineers, product and engineering managers to deliver reliable functionality for our platform. You will help streamline UI development core services and build a cohesive set of developer tools and automation. You will contribute to test automation, performance improvements, test stabilization and improve our continuous integration pipeline. Mentor and learn from other team members through pair programming, code reviews, brown bag sessions, etc.

About You

Basic Qualification 

• 8+ years of proven experience delivering hands-on coding and scripting using modern languages in automation, with a focus on Java.
• 4+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, ensuring robust and stable build pipeline systems (Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket)
• Champion code quality relentlessly by reviewing code, delivering reliable unit, integration, and system-level tests that run on our platform.
• Experience in crafting test strategies and automation for platform as well as feature focused teams.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable, robust, and performant automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Proficiency in modern automation tools and technologies; experience with Selenium, TestNG, Playwright, Cucumber.
• Improve platform scalability by implementing effective performance and load testing strategies.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and testing applications.
• Experience with integration technologies (e.g., RESTful APIs, message queues).
• Proven collaboration skills with product management, engineering team, and other collaborators to ensure quality throughout the application development.

Other Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in cross team quality partnerships.
• Passionate about learning & exploring new technologies & tools.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $156,800 USD - $235,200 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $131,500 USD - $235,200 USD

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 make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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