Systems Engineer - Workday HCM

621 Salesforce.com India Private Limited Hyderabad Branch; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce.com India Private Limited Hyderabad Branch is seeking a highly skilled Workday Engineer to join a hybrid team, focusing on configuring, developing, and testing Workday functionalities and integrations. Hands-on Workday experience plus automation testing and Kainos usage are desired.

You will work with internal Workday teams and business users, participate in design sessions, build scalable test automation, and ensure quality through comprehensive test plans, cases, and defect

Qualifications

• Workday certification in one or more areas (HCM Core/Benefits/Payroll, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of Workday architecture, configuration, and integration.
• 4+ years of Workday HRMS and Workday Integrations experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Workday enhancements for existing implementation across functional and technical aspects.
• Collaborate with Workday teams and business users including third-party integrators.
• Develop test automation using Kainos to be scalable and maintainable.

Skills

Workday HCM

Workday Integrations

Automation testing

SQL

Web Services (SOAP/REST)

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kainos

Workday Studio

BIRT

Job description

Job Description: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineer with expertise in Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to join our dynamic team. This is a hybrid role where one would spend time configuring, developing, and testing Workday functionalities and integrations. In addition to Workday expertise, the individual should have knowledge of manually testing and expertise to leverage automation tools like Kainos. You must have a solid background in Workday with hands‑on experience in one or more Workday HRMS modules and a good understanding of industry best practices. You will be responsible for configuration, development, and testing through all phases of the implementation lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver Workday enhancements to support our existing Workday implementation, covering both functional and technical aspects.
• Closely work with the internal Workday teams and business users to understand the business requirements, including working with 3rd party integrators.
• Participate in product and feature design sessions with developers, designers, product managers, and business systems analysts.
• Build test automation that is effective, scalable, and maintainable using tools such as Kainos.
• Participate in and contribute to code reviews.
• Diagnose, track and manage quality issues to resolution.
• Ensure product quality meets stakeholder expectations and is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, test execution, and defect reporting.

Required experience

• Workday certification in one or more areas - Workday Pro in function modules (HCM Core/Benefits/Compensation/Payroll/Time & Absence/Recruiting)
• In-depth knowledge of Workday architecture, configuration, and integration.
• 4+ years of implementation experience in Workday HRMS and Workday Integrations
• Working knowledge of Workday Security, Business Processes, Reports, Calc Fields, Integrations framework, Studio and BIRT.
• Well‑versed with Workday Community and latest features/enhancements of Workday Releases.
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
• Experience in leading a full life cycle Workday implementations.
• Working knowledge of data modeling design and relational database languages (SQL or SOQL).
• Working Knowledge of Web Services (SOAP and REST).
• Experience in defining test strategy, test plans, test cases, test execution, and defect reporting for Workday or any enterprise HR software applications.
• Ability to effectively communicate status and risk to the team and manager
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience.

Desired experience and qualifications

• Experience of working on Workday modules like HCM, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Time & Absence
• Experience working on Workday Adaptive Planning is a plus
• Familiarity with Annual Benefit Enrollment, Compensation Merit and Promotion cycles
• Experience Troubleshooting with MuleSoft
• Experience working in and around the software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service architectures and/or industry
• A demonstrated, genuine AI‑first approach to engineering — using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production‑ready.

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