Engineer Software Testing, Community

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

About Paylocity

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 offering 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.  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! 

Position Overview

Software Test Engineers work with dedicated product teams to ensure that our products are delivered against our customers’ unmet needs. They are responsible for ensuring our software functions the way it is intended by creating testing plans, writing automated tests, performing manual ones and solving complex issues along the way. They work side by side with software engineers to improve overall software quality and recommend opportunities for improvement, take a feature from inception to delivery, leveraging testing best practices until it is fully automated.
 

Who you are:

• 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:
• Understand customer needs and business goals.
• Often acts as the test lead for features or epics.
• Be adept at creating and executing comprehensive test plans for small to medium SaaS product features while collaborating with Product owners/analysts/managers and other Engineers.
• Analyze Production issues and regression bugs to identify and implement preventative measures.
• Help your team bring value to our customers by doing manual test runs when needed and identifying gaps in our team testing flow.
• Design a cleanly coded, comprehensive test automation framework for their team or product area.
• Consider future testing needs when designing test automation.
• Work with developers to create test harnesses that will enable test automation for hard-to-test features.
• Understand and consider technical dependencies when creating test strategies.
• Work within the scope of a team and participate in cross-team testing collaboration.
• Perform regularly exploratory testing on the product to ensure a high-quality level of product releases
• Solve testing issues.
• Monitor state of quality, raising awareness, and resolution of gaps in quality.

Required Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent with 2+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience building automated testing frameworks from scratch using frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing UI automation tests for modern consumer facing web applications
• Demonstrated experience in implementing API automated tests
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery integrations or tooling (Team City/Octopus Deploy)
• Preferrable experience in writing MongoDB queries
• Desire to work in a dynamic environment, constantly learn and grow
• Strong sense of curiosity
• Ability to work effectively in an agile and remote-first team environment
• If you are excited about Paylocity, the technology, the team, the project, and can say yes to several or all of the criteria above, we're excited to hear from you. What are you waiting for? 

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. 

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.Paylocity is 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 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, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. 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. 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 leavebenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed. We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a pension 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. 

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