Job Automation/ QA Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer - HCM EMEA

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At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Team

The Workday Quality team is seeking innovative individuals who are passionate about quality and technology; people who want to work with up-to-date tool sets and modern testing methodologies. We put heavy emphasis and value on testing. We design and build our own test tools, which has helped us to achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction over the years.  We are an innovator in the enterprise software space and, as a result, are able to consistently present our quality engineers with new learning and development opportunities. 

About the Role

This position requires a self-motivated professional with dynamic, hands-on functional QA testing experience. Candidates are expected to plan, design, and review test specifications and ensure full coverage based on functional specifications and requirements documents. This individual will be expected to manually test and also convert the functional tests into an automated system. This individual will be a primary contributor to the test effort for our Workday Enterprise Business Services offerings and, therefore, should be well versed in the QA of Enterprise Applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop test plans and testware for capabilities of our HCM application
  • Execute testware during formal test periods for every Workday update
  • Assist in determining test methodology and test data setup
  • Diagnose problems and report bugs and enhancements to Development
  • Interact effectively with Product Management and Development
  • Provide regular status against test plans
  • Build regression and acceptance test scenarios for above mentioned products

Job Requirements:

  • 5+  years of quality assurance experience, preferably in enterprise software applications
  • 5+  years Human Resource, Payroll or Financial software application experience
  • Strong functional knowledge in HCM domain
  • Proven experience with delivering high quality software products within a full development life-cycle
  • A college degree in Business, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Test Automation experience is a plus
  • Clear and effective communication skills
  • Attitude and aptitude to be successful in a growing company, working on a brand new product

About You

You are always up for a new challenge and willing to dig your heels in to come up with the best ideas for our customers.  You work well in teams and trust in team discussion to drive toward optimal results.  As a highly visible member of both internal and external teams, you represent and display Workday's core values to all you work with - every day.  And not least, you are obsessed with solving customer problems and let this drive your workday.

  • 5+  years of quality assurance experience, preferably in enterprise software applications
  • 5+  years Human Resource, Payroll or Financial software application experience
  • Strong functional knowledge in HCM domain
  • Proven experience with delivering high quality software products within a full development life-cycle
  • A college degree in Business, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Test Automation experience is a plus
  • Clear and effective communication skills
  • Attitude and aptitude to be successful in a growing company, working on a brand new product