workday
Principal SDET Engineer - Platform Security
At a Glance
- Location
- IND.Chennai, India
- Employment
- Full Time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Posted
- 2026-03-05
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
Requirements
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in Java and hands-on expertise in test automation, framework development, and system integration.
5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, or TeamCity), ensuring pipeline stability, observability, and scalability.
Strong command of the latest automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, and Appium, with an emphasis on reusability, reliability, and CI integration.
Proven ability to architect, code, and maintain large-scale automation frameworks — from concept to implementation — supporting functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
Expert understanding of testing methodologies and experience in architecting and leading unit, system, integration, performance, security tests and observability tools
Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience integrating tests in containerized build pipelines.
Responsibilities
Join our team as a Sr. SDET Engineer (P5) and play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and quality of our platform. You will work closely with development engineers, product and engineering managers to deliver reliable functionality for our platform. You will help streamline UI development core services and build a cohesive set of developer tools and automation. You will contribute to test automation, performance improvements, test stabilization and improve our continuous integration pipeline. Mentor and learn from other team members through pair programming, code reviews, brown bag sessions, etc.
Team
We are a dynamic team, that builds and manages the CI/CD pipelines for authentication and security features, ensuring that code changes are efficiently tested, and deployed. Our primary focus is on maintaining stability, enhancing automation, and fostering continuous improvement to empower security teams to deliver features more rapidly and with greater assurance.
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