Senior Software Test Engineer - Workday HCM

Company

Cox Enterprises

Engineering / Product Development

Sr Software Test Engineer

Individual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $90,100.00 - $150,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Cox Enterprises is looking for a talented Senior Software Test Engineer to join our software quality assurance team. In this role, the Senior Software Test Engineer will conduct testing activities in an Agile team/environment supporting Workday HCM Talent Management across the enterprise. The ideal candidate has Test Automation experience and a strong functional background with an understanding of Workday HCM applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with analysts, customers, and developers to gain an understanding of functional requirements and business processes.
• Proactively influence design reviews by sharing subject matter expertise and highlighting risks.
• Identify and prioritize high value test cases.
• Partner with Quality Engineering team on manual and automation strategy/standards and the build-out of automation test scripts.
• Drive results while completing quality assurance testing on an agile team.
• Participate in the development and execution of test strategies, test plans, and test scripts.
• Execute test cases that may include unit, functional, system, stress/load, regression, integration, performance, and usability testing.
• Provide accurate metrics and status on testing progress.
• Certify readiness for User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate functional, regression and UAT testing with business users for all new features in Workday HCM application.
• Improve and Grow
• Support continuous improvement of our QA process by receiving feedback and implementing changes.
• Apply advanced knowledge of testing principles, methodologies, and techniques to test and ensure software / platform quality.
• Exhibit a growth mindset while learning innovative technologies and techniques.
• Formalize test procedures.
• Create efficiencies with both manual and automated testing capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience performing manual testing within Workday HCM (Functional experience in testing in Talent Management).
• Hands-on experience in writing test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on experience developing and executing Automated Test scripts.
• Good knowledge of generally accepted Quality Assurance methodologies.
• Experience in developing test scripts and test automation.
• Solid group facilitation and communication skills.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience in System Integration, Regression and End-to-End testing of HCM Applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field.  The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2+ years’ experience, a PH.D. and up to 1 year of experience, or 16 years’ experience in a related field.

Preferred:

• Experience in automation script development, preferable to have experience in using Tricentis TOSCA for test automation.
• Workday Mobile Application testing.
• Support the testing workstream on multiple projects
• Test management tools (e.g. Tricentis qTest, Zephyr, HP ALM, Jira).
• Experience using Enterprise Interface Build (EIB)
• History of working with offshore QA teams.
• Participate in the agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.As our primary divisions Cox Automotive and Cox Communications drive new waves of innovation, Cox Enterprises is entering spaces like cleantech, healthcare, esports and more. We're a family business guided by a legacy of bold innovation that’s driven by those who want to make their mark. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.