Senior Test Automation Lead: Java & Workday QA Strategy

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

FINRA’s Corporate Systems team seeks an experienced lead developer to drive testing automation across enterprise applications. The role blends hands-on development with quality leadership, focusing on Workday HCM and Finance systems and guiding a team of analysts and developers.

You will define automation strategies, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders up to senior leadership to shift-left quality and improve overall software quality across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience.
• Strong system design experience
• Strong experience in object-oriented development
• Strong experience with cloud technologies
• Strong experience in data storage technologies
• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
• Strong experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies
• Strong experience test automation and unit testing
• Strong experience software security

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and evolve test automation strategy across multiple application teams.
• Lead Workday test automation and tool evaluation for HCM and Finance functional areas.
• Develop and maintain automated test cases and frameworks for both custom-built applications and Workday systems.
• Mentor engineers and developers on testing best practices.
• Collaborate with application teams to integrate quality practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Establish and track quality metrics, presenting findings to executive leadership.
• Drive cultural change around quality practices and shift-left testing adoption.
• Software QA experience as well as being in a lead capacity role setting testing direction and mentoring others.
• Deep, hands-on expertise designing, building, and maintaining test automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, or Selenium.
• Strong coding skills (Java preferred) with ability to develop, review, and maintain automation code.
• Experience defining and implementing comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, and performance testing, including test data management and shift-left testing practices.
• Strong communication and influence skills to champion quality practices and drive outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders, up to senior leadership.

Skills

Java

Test automation

QA leadership

Playwright

Selenium

Cucumber

CI/CD

Workday HCM

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

FINRA’s Corporate Systems team seeks an experienced lead developer to drive testing automation across enterprise applications. The role blends hands-on development with quality leadership, focusing on Workday HCM and Finance systems and guiding a team of analysts and developers.

You will define automation strategies, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders up to senior leadership to shift-left quality and improve overall software quality across multiple teams.