Test Engineer Intern

Position OverviewThe Implementation Engineering team builds and supports internal tools, integrations, and automations that improve operational efficiency and business outcomes. The team works closely with engineers, business partners, subject-matter experts, and end users to confirm that solutions work correctly, safely, and consistently across real workflows, roles, systems, and company-specific configurations. Internship OverviewThe Test Engineering Internship is a 12-week summer experience designed to give you a real look into a career in software quality and test engineering within Implementation Engineering. You'll gain hands-on experience supporting internal software and business initiatives while learning how cross-functional teams identify needs, deliver solutions, and measure outcomes. The experience is designed to build practical skills that prepare you for a potential full-time opportunity after graduation. Throughout the summer, you'll:Get hands-on experience through onboarding, mentorship, job shadowing, reverse shadowing, and exposure to real business and technology work.Build business and industry knowledge through weekly learning activities, assignments, leadership conversations, and team experiences.Work on a meaningful project aligned to Implementation Engineering goals, developing recommendations and presenting your work to managers and leaders.Grow your professional skills through workshops, peer networking, mentorship, and our Intern Summit at Paylocity's headquarters.Connect with leaders and peers across the organization while gaining a broader understanding of how different teams work together.Showcase your growth through mid-point and final presentations highlighting your key learnings, project results, and recommendations.Primary Responsibilities The below represents the primary duties of the intern position; others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Review requirements, user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, prior defects, and end-user feedback; translate them into clear, risk-based test plans, scenarios, test cases, test data, and expected results.Perform API testing for REST-based services, including requests and responses, status codes, schemas, authentication and authorization, validation rules, error handling, data persistence, negative conditions, boundary conditions, and repeat-run behavior.Execute functional, smoke, regression, integration, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing across supported environments and workflows.Validate complete business journeys, including user actions, APIs, integrations, data updates, workflow decisions, approvals, downstream systems, notifications, and final user-visible outcomes.Test permissions, role-based access, restricted actions, intended task actors, notification recipients, and data isolation between users, companies, clients, modules, and environments.Test dependencies and failure modes, including unavailable resources, missing forms or files, invalid references, partial success, delays, timeouts, retries, safe skips, recovery behavior, and clear user-facing warnings.Use representative company and client configurations to verify that company-specific data, identifiers, attachments, security groups, notifications, and other sensitive references are not exposed or carried into the wrong destination.Create actionable Jira defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, environment and test-data details, screenshots or logs, severity, business impact, and links to related requirements or test cases.Partner with engineers, subject-matter experts, and end users to facilitate user acceptance testing, verify fixes, summarize pass/fail status and residual risks, and maintain reusable regression suites, checklists, evidence, and test documentation.