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Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by providing an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Paylocity acquired Airbase! Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and is expected to deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer various benefits, 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 Airbase by Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help Airbase by Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere.

Position Overview

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.

Primary Responsibilities

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

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

Education and 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
• Experience testing consumer facing web applications
• Deep knowledge of software testing best practices in an agile environment
• Experience working with Salesforce.com Sales and Service Clouds
• 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

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.
• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously.

Airbase by Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Airbase by Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other status protected by state or local law for an individual who falls within the jurisdiction of such law. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers. Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting accessibility@paylocity.com

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