Senior QA Engineer - On Site

Job Summary
** PEO industry, payroll and benefits software experience is an ABSOLUTE MUST for this role **

PrismHR creates exceptional software and services, empowering human resource outsourcing service providers such as Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) and Administrative Service Organizations (ASOs) to deliver world-class HR, Benefits and Payroll to small and medium-sized businesses. This is a senior role in which you will apply your deep payroll/PEO expertise and QA experience to improve the quality of the PrismHR product. *PEO industry, payroll, payroll taxes and benefits software experience are an absolute must for this role.
Responsibilities

• Apply deep PEO / HR domain / payroll / payroll taxes / benefits experience in developing, documenting, and executing detailed and comprehensive test scenarios for PrismHR products. Anticipating how “real world” users interact with our software from a variety of roles (i.e., administrator, end user, etc.)
• Apply industry standard quality assurance practices, including but not limited to test case design, software defect reporting, and Agile testing techniques, as well as common software QA tools
• Enhance the collective industry understanding of the QA team and their ability to create realistic test scenarios, through occasional training and mentoring of peers on PEO subject matter
• Contribute to creation of realistic test data
• Delivers and tracks progress to testing schedules, within aggressive “time-to-market” driven project environments, sometimes across parallel projects
• Collaborates within QA team and across product development on process improvement initiatives
• Regularly summarizes testing status and areas of risk, and wherever possible proposes and executes upon mitigation strategies. Employs a sound risk management approach to determine an optimum, well-structured and comprehensive test strategy for assigned projects
• Interfaces with automation engineers to identify and prioritize areas for significant efficiency and confidence gains through test automation
• Analyzes, tracks, and reports on application issues and maintains documentation on project issues and defect metrics

Qualifications

• 6+ years of deep experience within the PEO industry, coupled with significant hands-on experience with software applications commonly used within the PEO industry, including but not limited to payroll and benefits management
• College degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science
• Excellent troubleshooting ability.
• Strong team player with a “can do” attitude. Routinely demonstrates flexibility and is a very capable multi-tasker. Possesses solid organizational and time management skills.
• Possesses a strong desire to learn current software development best practices (Agile), and in particular, the software testing discipline, in applying deep domain experience
• Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written. Very comfortable at documenting and conveying standard operating procedures
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment • PC and/or Mac savvy, from an end user perspective. Highly comfortable using browser-based software applications and office application suites