Test Engineer Enterprise Applications

Company Overview

 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 our award-winning technology company run effectively as you take on big challenges and find solutions with a position in Operations.

Use your problem-solving skills to shape the way others see Paylocity. Launch your career with us!

This position will interface directly with business users to understand business requirements, define solution architecture, create technical specs, design, develop and implement solutions focused on the Salesforce platform.

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. 

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.