Senior SDET Engineer, Workday
$156.8-235.2k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Be an early applicant
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$156.8-235.2k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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