QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Workday Strategic Sourcing is a leading provider in cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help organizations source faster and achieve better business outcomes. Strategic Sourcing has a direct impact on Workday’s ability to deliver a comprehensive source-to-pay strategic sourcing offering, elevating the office of procurement in strategic importance and transforming the procurement function. We are looking to grow our team of over 50 employees in Latvia.

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to create robust automated tests and guide an Agile engineering team to archive quickly and document any committed changes. If you are responsible, skilled, helpful and kind, you may be a great fit for our team. Our team values a pragmatic solution to painful problems.

About the role

• Planning and implementing automation tests from product requirements and test cases
• Guiding developers in automated testing
• Improve automated test , development and delivery solutions

About the team

• We are currently using React, Redux and Apollo GraphQL client with ES6, TypeScript and SCSS
• Frontend code is unit-tested using Jest and Enzyme and cleanliness is maintained using latest approaches (ESLint, AirBnB style guide)
• Styling is separated from components and modularised using CSS modules approach with the help of webpack
• Our application backend is built on Ruby on Rails
• We take full advantage of Postgres with a trigger-based time machine, SQL views, and a willingness to drop from ActiveRecord to raw SQL when it makes sense
• AWS, Sidekiq, Redis, ElasticSearch and websockets definitely play their parts
• We release to production once every two weeks
• Jira and Slack help us coordinate across continents and time zones
• Github helps us improve each other's code and our well-tuned linter keeps reviews quick on style and heavy on substance
• Our QA team works hard to catch issues, bus, and cross-browser glitches before we merge a pull request into the mainline and again before release in the weekly smoke test
• Gitlab CI gives us power to continually improve our automated testing infrastructure

About you

• Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience including 3+ years of automated testing experience
• Knowledge in the following (the more the better):
• Good coding skills, preferably in Ruby and/or JavaScript or any other modern
• programming language (e.g. Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, Groovy, Scala)
• BDD approaches and tools (Gherkin/Cucumber)
• Selenium (Capybara, SitePrism)
• CI/CD process and server tools knowledge (preferably GitLab-CI)
• Bash Scripting
• General skills: Linux/Max, Git
• Containerization: Docker/Docker compose, K8s