Software Development Engineer - Cloud Native Test Frameworks

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About the Team

The Systems Verification Frameworks team is looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer with DevOps experience to join us in helping Workday to deliver reliable, resilient SaaS products to Workdays customers. This team focuses on developing cloud-native tools to enable efficient, effective and flexible testing of the Workday stack. Our teams partners are the Service, Application, Infrastructure and Platform teams who need these tools to ensure their software or infrastructure changes are of the highest quality before they are shipped to production.

About the Role

As a Software Development Engineer in this team you will have the opportunity to design and implement tools and frameworks to enable our internal customers to automate testing of our public cloud platforms (kubernetes on AWS and GCP) and services. You will integrate available OSS tools or develop tailored solutions depending on the scenario. You will develop a strong understanding of Workday environments and software deployment. You will follow best in class software engineering practices with CI/CD in mind. You will work in an agile environment with teams based in EMEA and North America. Your contributions will help accelerate the delivery, and improve the quality, of the Workday offering through robust test automation.

About the role:

• You will be a key contributor to the teams developer self service framework which enables teams to verify their service, infrastructure or platform changes in a user friendly manner focused on developer productivity.

• Build and deploy solutions which are highly reliable, resilient, and extendable

• Work with innovative cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm and ArgoCD on GCP and AWS platforms.

• Focus on building software with quality and testability in mind

• Work with geographically distributed teams to drive and develop automation strategies focused on continuous delivery

• Continuously improve processes, methodologies and tools to enhance teams efficiency

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years industry experience

• Experience with test technologies working with containerized frameworks such as Docker or Kubernetes

• Development experience in at least one of Java, Scala, Python or Go

Other Qualifications:

• Practical experience with Linux/Unix system administration, monitoring tools and troubleshooting. Strong experience of general linux usage.

• Experience building test pipelines using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, Artifactory​

• Experience in developing test automation frameworks

• Comfortable working in a SaaS environment

• Good working knowledge of distributed systems and microservices

• Experience with Agile methodologies and best practices

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Demonstrated uses of creative thinking for solutions to exciting problems that matter

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