Job Description

Payscale is looking for a QA Engineer who is motivated, energetic, and detail-oriented. If you thrive by working in a fast-paced environment utilizing the latest internet technologies, consider this opportunity as the next level in your professional development.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create and execute functional test plans and test cases
• Maintain and add to automation testing suite
• Assist with root cause analysis for defects and performance issues
• Perform project and defect tracking for assigned areas
• Work constructively with the Payscale development team to solve tough challenges efficiently in an always changing environment.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement within the QA team

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years in a software Quality Assurance role
• Experience devising test strategies, creating test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience testing web/SaaS applications
• Good core Java level and experience in writing automated tests in Selenium and Java
• Have worked with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, MSSQL, etc.) including creating and executing queries
• Agile/SCRUM experience
• Issue/Project Tracking tools (such as JIRA)
• Application Performance Monitoring tools (such as New Relic, Sentry)
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment
• Ability to prioritize and address multiple tasks in a dynamic work environment
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent relevant work experience

Experience and knowledge desirable:

• Experience with TestRail or similar testing tool
• API testing using postman or similar tools
• Performance/load testing
• Understand public cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS)

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is GBP \xc2\xa338,588 - \xc2\xa357,838, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. This position is also eligible for an annual corporate bonus of 8%. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors \xe2\x80\x93 we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

Company Description

Payscale is a company with a vision to change the world by empowering people and employers with the strategic power of compensation by delivering data, services, and software to get pay right.

As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses make sustainable fair pay a reality. Empowering more than 50% of the Fortune 500 in 198 countries, Payscale provides a combination of diverse and dynamic data sources, experienced compensation services, and scalable software to enable organizations to be informed about pay transparency, equity in the workplace and dramatically improve how their employees experience the benefits provided to them - mainly compensation! Pay is powerful. To learn more, visit

• Voted Seattle\xe2\x80\x99s and Boston\xe2\x80\x99s best places to work according to Built In 2022.
• Voted one of Seattle\xe2\x80\x99s companies with the best benefits according to Built In 2022.

Location

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model, providing flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you and finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter. Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, and the UK with unlimited access to WeWork and Regus spaces. We are unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii at this time.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Respect every individual, work as a team
• Be Customer first, customer centric
• Have a Bias towards action
• Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday)
• Make Data driven decisions

An open and inclusive culture where you\xe2\x80\x99ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings
• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
• Access to continued learning & development opportunities with dedicated quarterly learning hours and courses offered via Workramp
• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth
• A growing network of employee resource groups
• And more!

Our more standard benefits (UK) - All paid 100% by Payscale

• Holiday \xe2\x80\x93 Annual accrual for full time and part time employees
• Company Paid & Statutory Holidays \xe2\x80\x93 Generous time off provided
• Pension \xe2\x80\x93 Pension scheme with Standard Life with a 4% company contribution.
• Life Assurance \xe2\x80\x93 Cover in place for 4 x base salary.
• Private Medical Insurance \xe2\x80\x93 Company funded individual and family cover with vitality.
• BenefitHub \xe2\x80\x93 Discount marketplace

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

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