Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, Workiva

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, software development in test, test infrastructure, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline

Desirable

• Lead development of the quality systems that help Workiva’s Financial Reporting teams ship customer-facing innovation with speed and confidence
• As a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for the testing activities, quality platform, engineering standards, and developer workflows that support multiple product teams across multiple products You’ll solve complex problems in test infrastructure, distributed-systems validation, CI/CD reliability, performance, and observability, not simply automate test cases
• You will partner with Principal Engineers, Product Directors, other Quality teams and Engineering leaders to make quality an integrated capability of the software delivery lifecycle rather than a late-stage checkpoint
• This is a Staff-level individual contributor role with broad organizational influence: you will set technical direction, build high-leverage solutions, and enable teams to adopt scalable quality practices
• Define and execute the technical vision for quality engineering across FInancial Reporting Products, including reusable test tooling, infrastructure, standards, and paved-road developer experiences
• Set and own governance standards that keep AI-generated code and agent integrations safe, testable, and consistent across services
• Rate every agent-callable surface for AI readiness before integration, and define rollback or human-confirmation paths for agent actions
• Architect, build, and evolve scalable automated test frameworks that support API, integration, contract, end-to-end, user-workflow, performance, and resiliency testing
• Design and implement quality-platform capabilities for complex distributed systems, including CI/CD integrations, test-environment strategies, release validation, and actionable quality signals
• Drive comprehensive performance, load, scale, reliability, and chaos-testing approaches for critical services and customer workflows
• Establish meaningful quality metrics, telemetry standards, and dashboards that help engineering teams identify release risk, system vulnerabilities, and customer-impacting regressions early
• Partner with product and engineering teams to embed quality practices throughout planning, development, delivery, and production operations
• Lead multi-quarter, cross-functional technical initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, adoption, and measurable outcomes
• Work closely with Principal Engineers, Product Directors, and Engineering Leadership to align quality investments with product strategy, architectural roadmaps, and customer needs
• Prototype and personally deliver high-leverage platform components while enabling product teams to adopt and extend shared capabilities
• Lead and mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, raise the technical bar for quality engineering, and create repeatable practices that scale beyond a single team
• Champion a customer-centered quality mindset by connecting production signals, user workflows, and engineering decisions to the customer experience
• Drive alignment across product lines and stakeholders to resolve ambiguous technical problems and establish durable engineering standards
• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office