Workday·QA Automation Engineer

Workday QA Automation Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Dublin, DublinPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a quick recruiter call and then moved to a manager interview that was scheduled for 30 minutes but ran shorter because the manager joined about 10 minutes late.

The questions were largely about the tools I used day to day, so it felt practical on the surface.

Where things went off for me was how narrowly the manager seemed to view QA approaches. When I explained how I design test cases—using Jira under specific stories instead of tools like TestRail or Zephyr—the manager interrupted me and pushed back, saying stories were only for developers’ work. I also got a question about troubleshooting issues in GitLab Actions, and when I shared my perspective, I was met with a dismissive comment about not needing knowledge from books.

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