Senior Engineer Software Testing - International Payroll

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

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!

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.

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About the team:

Our Payroll product is at the center of our portfolio. It enables our customers to pay their employees correctly and on time in many countries around the world. As we continue to accrue customers rapidly and build engaging experiences, we continue to lean into an API-first strategy to power cross suite experiences both internally and externally. In this role you will help to realize these strategies to meet our demands of growth, scale, and effective delivery by crafting domain APIs.

Senior 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 and lead by example in 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/Associate Software Test Engineers/Software Test Engineers to create various forms of automated testing, execute tests and solve complex issues. They work with software engineers to improve overall software quality and to identify opportunities for improvement.

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.

What you will do:

• Understand customer needs and business goals.
• Often acts as the test lead for features or epics.
• Be adept at creating, executing, and supervising highly complex test plans for large-scale development projects.
• Analyze Major Incidents (MINs) and regression bugs to identify and implement preventative measures.
• Design 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, reflecting QA best practices and industry standards when creating test strategies.
• Provide feedback via decision-making frameworks for proposed changes from across the organization.
• Work within the scope of a team and participates in cross-team testing collaboration.
• Work with Product Analysts to create thorough testing plans and strategy for automated testing.
• Utilize, extend and create new automated testing frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for test architecture and implementation that can be reused by multiple teams.
• When needed, perform exploratory testing on the product to understand its testing challenges.
• Create and mentor/coach software engineers/ASTEs/STEs to create various forms of automated testing (of high complexity) and help team identify and use appropriate methods of testing.
• Understand how to use security testing tools to find gaps in security coverage.
• Solve complex testing issues.
• Monitor state of quality, raising awareness and resolution of gaps in quality
• Drive the team and organization toward implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, where needed. Identify and implement improvements for existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Regularly contribute to and at times present at CoPs, and contribute to Paved Roads when appropriate.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, 4+ years' experience.
• Demonstrated experience building automated testing frameworks from scratch.
• Demonstrated experience working with an object oriented language (preferably C#).
• Demonstrated experience working with client-side web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
• Demonstrated experience testing APIs and deep understanding of API best practices.
• Experience writing SQL queries including joins.
• Experience testing consumer facing web applications.
• Deep knowledge of Software Testing techniques and best practices in an agile environment.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery integrations or tooling.
• 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.

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 accessibility@paylocity.com.

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