Manager, Test Automation (Financials)

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About The Team

Workday is the leader in delivering best-in-class finance and HR applications.

Our Product Test Automation team plays a pivotal role in building a positive customer experience by delivering new features and improved functionality. We believe in Quality!

Leading teams of Test Automation Engineers, our leaders drive the delivery of high-quality features and functionality across Financials, HCM, Payroll, Spend Management, Higher Education and Talent applications.

Our Automation Managers collaborate with leaders across Development, Product Management and Quality Assurance in the planning, design, and execution of automation testing strategies, while promoting efficient processes and methodologies.

We exist to elevate the Workday experience for all our customers in the delivery of quality enterprise applications.

Do you want an exciting job leading a team of dynamic Test Automation Engineers? Get involved and experience Workday!

About The Role

Workday is looking for an outstanding Manager, Test Automation to join the Product Test Automation leadership team.

Responsibilities and objectives of the role are:

• Working towards achieving the established Success Metrics.
• Champion Workday values and diversity through our VIBE strategy - Value Inclusion, Belonging and Equity
• Establish a culture that continuously strives towards standard processes, measurable outcomes, and operational excellence
• Implement the strategic vision for Test Automation using our best of breed proprietary Automation tools.
• Apply your understanding of test automation and software engineering standard methodologies to impact design and implementation approaches.
• Define uniform quality expectations by allocating and prioritizing Automation resources in an Agile environment.
• Be highly engaged with multi-functional teams by building relationships, collaborating with, and influencing Development, Product Management, QA, Build Pipeline & DevOps teams.
• Ensure our Build pipeline is operating as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Implementation of our automation standards policies and processes in line with Workday's product development methodology and standards.
• Lead, and mentor a diverse, globally distributed team of Test Automation Engineers specializing in the creation, curation, and maintenance of automated tests for the Workday Financials Product.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years recent experience managing direct reports.
• 3+ years’ experience testing SaaS and/or cloud-based Enterprise applications like Workday
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or equivalent work experience required.

Other Qualifications:

• Able to deep dive into technical areas when needed but also up level communications to a broader audience.
• Strong leadership, influence, and thought leadership skills
• Candidates must possess an intense passion for automation and an “automation first” strategy.
• Strong background in the design and architecture of automation solutions that enable a shared accountability in quality
• Strong people management skills with a proven track record to hire, coach, and grow talent within your team(s).
• Must be proficient with Atlassian tools like JIRA & Confluence.
• Must be an excellent communicator and represent the “voice of Quality”. Candidate should be comfortable holding all teams account for quality and articulating opportunities and/or concerns to upper management and collaborators across multiple Product Areas.
• Strong technical background required. Must have prior programming experience and solid understanding of how to embed test automation in CI/CD pipelines. Must also have experience in all types of testing, including unit, integration, system, functional, non-functional and performance testing.
• Expertise with continuous integration systems that incorporate fast feedback mechanisms and quality metrics

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