Software Test Engineer

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!
Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the (CZ)
About:
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 Engineer
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.
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Who you are:
Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, DevOps, virtualization & network.
• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology
How we work:
• Curiosity and candor; the quality of the idea wins the day
• Casual, focused, and agile environment operating under our shared principles
• Customers are at the center of everything we do
• Small, mission-focused squads with an entrepreneurial spirit backed by enterprise investments
• Consistent routines across stakeholders to ensure complete transparency
• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and customers
During the first six months, you will:
• 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 of developers to ensure complete understanding of the technical design of features
• Identify testing gaps in the team's product and finds 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.
• Exercise manual and automated security tests to find gaps in security coverage
• 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:
• 3+ years of experience in testing software
• Demonstrated experience building tests from scratch without an existing framework
• Working knowledge of an object oriented language (preferably C#)
• Working knowledge of client-side web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
• Experience writing SQL queries including joins
• Experience testing APIs with Postman or similar tools
• Experience testing consumer facing web applications
• Experience with testing with automation frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, or similar tools
• Deep knowledge of software testing best practices in an agile environment
• Knowledge of the fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
• Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn
• Must have a strong sense of curiosity
• Must commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks
• Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving