Software Engineer

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At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

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Software Engineer, Ascentis Corporation, a UKG Company, Lowell, Massachusetts (Remote)

Will work as part of an Agile team primarily focused on automation in software test & deployment. Will design test automation and execution plans, learn and overcome technical constraints and will deliver products that meet or exceed the quality standards set for the compliance, functional and performance requirements of the Company's software solutions. Specific duties include:

• Reviewing user stories and requirements and providing feedback related to testability and effort estimate from a quality assurance perspective.

• Building and maintaining automation framework and test cases and continuing to increasing test coverage for existing and new products.

• Running automation test runs and manual test runs - identifying, recording, documenting, and tracking bugs found internally and reported externally to the organization.

• Designing and building test plans and strategies, proposing new tools, to ensure continuity of release quality and ensuring proper test coverage of product functionality based on risk, importance, and criticality of product features from a customer point of view.

• Ensuring that automation framework allows applications to meet systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.

• Preparing and delivering reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas.

• Collaborating with software and systems research and development in application testing including applying system, unit, load, and acceptance testing methods.

• Making recommendations to team members and product owners for quality improvement of software applications.

• Preparing and managing release notes, as well as validating the quality of release content.

• Tracking quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and open defect counts, as required by Senior Quality Assurance Engineers or Architects.

• Learning and adapting quickly, developing/coding using deployment tools and support deployment automation and environments.

Requirements:

Position requires a Bachelor's degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, IT or a closely related field and 3 years of experience as a Software QA Test Engineer. Must also have 3 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement) working with the following:

• Robot Framework automation, GitHub and Selenium Web Driver;

• Performing backend and data driven testing using SQL queries on Oracle RDBMS;

• Jira implementation for User stories tracking, Bug filing and tracking;

• User Acceptance testing and Functional testing performed on the application under test;

• Performing Security Testing to ensure that users' security was maintained throughout the application.

Salary range of $99,299.00 - $114,193.85 offered.

This is a telecommuting position working from home. May reside anywhere in the United States.

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