Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

About Workato

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real-time, driving efficiency and agility.

Trusted by a community of 400,000 global customers, Workato empowers organizations of every size to unlock new value and lead in today's fast-changing world. Learn how Workato helps businesses of all sizes achieve more at workato.com.

Why join us?

Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.

• Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"
• Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
• Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
• Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

• Passionate about finding pesky bugs and moving forward with fixing them to have a flawless, bug-free product.
• You like to be in a fast-paced distributed organization and have a strong sense of urgency
• You are highly productive under pressure and pride yourself for producing timely accurate issue diagnostics and test reports
• You have a strong commitment to extending your technical knowledge and maintaining expertise in wide range of testing and automation
• You have excellent communication skill, detail oriented, driven, mission driven and a team player
• You are enthusiastic to contribute, lead, and excited to be in a startup environment

• Responsible for test infrastructure, allowing the company to exceed its quality standards
• Work closely with the Engineering teams to reproduce customer issues, define test strategies, build frameworks, automate customer use cases and assist with customer escalation
• Design and implement robust test cases that integrate well with modern CI/CD deployment technologies
• Own end-to-end test cycle for product feature from test design to test automation including issue reproduction from customer escalation
• Maintain existing automated test cases for functional, regression and performance test suites
• Work side-by-side with engineers on testing and automating test cases in sprint cycles
• Identify, document, and debug software defects
• Maintain and enhance in-house test frameworks
• Create test data sources and validate data ingestion & connectivity
• Indexing & search testing
• Permission & access control testing, role-based testing
• AI chat & AI agent testing
• UI/UX & usability testing

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent of education
• 8+ years of Software Quality Engineering
• Expert in distributed systems, container orchestration (Docker, K8S), and Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (Java, C++, etc...) and one scripting language (Ruby, JavaScript, etc...)
• Knowledge of common Web application vulnerabilities such as the OWASP Top 10
• Understanding of authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML), role-based access control, and general security best practices
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright, RSpec,...)
• Proficient in testing REST APIs, data ingestion pipelines, and familiarity with indexing/search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr)
• Experience testing AI-driven applications or chatbots
• Understanding of various test methodologies: regression, functional, performance
• Able to analyze and triage automated test runs and take appropriate actions for failure classification