Principal Software Test Engineer (Rest APIs & BDD)

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!
We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it's career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.
Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!
Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.
Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!
Software Test Engineers work with dedicated product teams to ensure that our products deliver against our customers' unmet needs. They function as ambassadors of quality within the team instilling a testing mindset to improve overall quality and team velocity. ?They are responsible for ensuring our software functions the way it is intended by creating automated testing plans and strategy, creating/coaching software engineers and Associate Software Test Engineers to create and execute various forms of automated testing, and solving complex issues.? They work side by side with software engineers to improve overall software quality and recommend opportunities for improvement.???
NextGen APIs are concrete part of our modernization strategy, and within our team you'll have the opportunity to be involved in our path towards api modernization, delivering exciting new product capabilities, and working to solve key architectural challenges that will enable future growth and scale. ???
Apply and learn more about this exciting opportunity within Paylocity!?
Responsibilities?

• Recommend and implement improvements to team core processes
• Self-sufficiently?perform?routine?testing?work
• Create test plans of medium complexity and?oversee?testing?tasks from design to completion
• Solve technical testing challenges with input from senior team members
• Ask questions to developers to ensure complete understanding of the technical design of features
• Identify testing gaps in the team's product and find ways to address them
• Plan for future testing by making sure that test plans are reusable for regression testing
• Create automation strategies for their team and add automated tests to existing framework
• Work within the scope of a team, cooperatively with developers and product owners
• Work with Product Analysts to create thorough testing plans and strategy for automated testing
• Perform exploratory testing on the product to understand its testing challenges
• Create and coach software engineers and Associate Software Test Engineers to create various forms of automated testing (of medium to high complexity), identify and use appropriate methods of testing.
• Monitor state of quality,?raising awareness and resolution of gaps in quality
• Drive the team and organization toward implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Actively participate in sharing knowledge, including strong participation in CoP discussions

Required Experience?

• 10+ years of experience in testing software
• Demonstrated experience building tests from scratch without an existing framework
• Experience working with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using frameworks like Gherkin, Cucumber, SpecFlow etc.
• Working knowledge of one or more programming language (like java C# nodejs python)
• Working knowledge of client-side web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
• Experience with CI CD and integrate automation testing with CI CD pipelines / DevOps
• Experience writing SQL queries including joins
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience testing APIs with Postman + API Automation testing
• Experience with Performance testing tools.
• Deep knowledge of software testing best practices in an agile environment
• Proven ability to adapt to new technologies and design test strategies.
• Extensive experience in good testing practices, methodologies, and automated tools.
• Expertise in measuring and reporting quality-related metrics to identify trends, anomalies and proactively resolve problems.
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving

Preferred Experience?

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, technology related field or equivalent experience
• Some experience with Cloud Platforms Azure, GCP, or AWS (preferred)

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] .
This role can be performed from anywhere in the US. The pay range for this position is $107k - $210k /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.