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About the Team
Software QA Engineer: Debugs software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products. Develops, modifies, and executes software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing. Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures. Maintains documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software. Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action. Consults with development engineers in resolution of problems. Provides feedback in preparation of technical appraisals of programming languages, systems, and computation software. Ensures quality computer integration into the overall functions of scientific computation, data acquisition, and processing. Survey Tip: Non-engineer roles that are primarily performing audits and tests of software products in accordance with established test plans and procedures and are not involved in the development of test plans should be matched to Software Test Technician (8281-8285).
About the Role
Workday Strategic Sourcing is a leading provider in cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help organizations source faster and achieve better business outcomes. Strategic Sourcing has a direct impact on Workday’s ability to deliver a comprehensive source-to-pay strategic sourcing offering, elevating the office of procurement in strategic importance and transforming the procurement function.
Workday Strategic Sourcing transforms archaic sourcing processes with clean, intuitive software that helps buyers and suppliers do business more effectively and with fewer headaches.
We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to create robust automated tests and guide an Agile engineering team to archive quickly and document any committed changes. If you are responsible, skilled, helpful and kind, you may be a great fit for our team. Our team values a pragmatic solution to painful problems.
About the role
• Planning and implementing automation tests from product requirements and test cases
• Guiding developers in automated testing
• Improve automated test , development and delivery solutions
About the team
• We are currently using React, Redux and Apollo GraphQL client with ES6, TypeScript and SCSS
• Frontend code is unit-tested using Jest and Enzyme and cleanliness is maintained using latest approaches (ESLint, AirBnB style guide)
• Styling is separated from components and modularised using CSS modules approach with the help of webpack
• Our application backend is built on Ruby on Rails
• We take full advantage of Postgres with a trigger-based time machine, SQL views, and a willingness to drop from ActiveRecord to raw SQL when it makes sense
• AWS
• Sidekiq, Redis, ElasticSearch and websockets definitely play their parts
• Scout's Engineering Workflow
• We release to production once every two weeks
• Jira and Slack help us coordinate across continents and time zones
• Github helps us improve each other's code and our well-tuned linter keeps reviews quick on style and heavy on substance
• Our QA team works hard to catch issues, bus, and cross-browser glitches before we merge a pull request into the mainline and again before release in the weekly smoke test
• Gitlab CI gives us power to continually improve our automated testing infrastructure
About you
• Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience including 3+ years of automated testing experience
• Knowledge in the following:
