5 days ago
Pittsford, NY, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Review requirements, user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, prior defects, and user feedback to create risk-based test plans, scenarios, test cases, test data, and expected results.
- Perform API testing for REST-based services, including requests, responses, schemas, authentication, authorization, validation, error handling, persistence, and boundary conditions.
- Execute functional, smoke, regression, integration, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing across supported environments and workflows.
- Validate business journeys involving user actions, APIs, integrations, data updates, approvals, downstream systems, notifications, and user-visible outcomes.
- Test permissions, role-based access, data isolation, company-specific configurations, sensitive references, dependencies, failure modes, retries, recovery behavior, and warnings.
- Create actionable Jira defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, environment and test-data details, evidence, severity, business impact, and related links.
- Partner with engineers, subject-matter experts, and end users on user acceptance testing, fix verification, status reporting, residual-risk summaries, and regression documentation.
Requirements
- Active enrollment in a bachelor's degree program with anticipated graduation between December 2027 and May 2028.
- Minimum GPA of 3.0.
- Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical major with interest in software quality and test engineering is preferred.
- Coursework, projects, or practical exposure involving software engineering, software testing, web applications, APIs, databases, automation, data analysis, or troubleshooting is preferred.
- Familiarity with HTTP, REST APIs, JSON, SQL, browser developer tools, logs, Git, Jira, or an API client such as Postman, Bruno, or Insomnia is helpful but not required.
- Exposure to Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C# is preferred, while willingness to learn is more important than mastery.
- Strong time management, analytical thinking, persistence, problem-solving, written and verbal communication, attention to detail, process adherence, confidentiality, and data responsibility.
- Ability to sit for extended periods and operate computers, phone systems, and multiple software programs.
Benefits
- 12-week summer internship with onboarding, mentorship, job shadowing, reverse shadowing, workshops, peer networking, and an Intern Summit at Paylocity's headquarters.
- Meaningful project aligned with Implementation Engineering goals, including recommendations and presentations to managers and leaders.
- Opportunities to connect with leaders and peers, participate in weekly learning activities, and present midpoint and final project results.
- Potential full-time opportunity after graduation is referenced.
- The role typically requires sitting at a desk or workstation for 7-8 hours per day.
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About Paylocity
Paylocity builds cloud-based human capital management software for businesses, covering payroll, HRIS, benefits, time and attendance, talent, employee engagement, and spend/expense management, plus tax services. The company sells its platform via SaaS subscriptions with add-on services. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, Paylocity is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker PCTY.