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Associate QA Analyst (Payroll team)

Employee Navigator
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    Frederick, Maryland, United States
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    Frederick, Maryland, United States
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About

About Employee Navigator Employee Navigator is a rapidly growing and highly profitable $100M ARR SaaS insurance & HR technology company that partners with the nation’s leading insurance carriers, payroll companies, and insurance brokers. Our platform simplifies the complexity of employee benefits and HR, including benefits administration, employee onboarding, payroll integrations, and more. We serve over 175,000 companies nationwide and have been named one of The Washington Post’s Top Workplaces six years in a row.
About The Role Employee Navigator is seeking an Associate QA Analyst to join our Partner & Payroll team. In this role, you will focus on validating the accuracy, reliability, and resilience of payroll and partner integrations within the EN application. You will work closely with Product and Engineering to ensure that complex payroll workflows, benefits plans, and data transmissions behave as expected across a wide range of partner-specific scenarios.
This role is ideal for a QA professional with a strong testing mindset, a growing depth of payroll and benefits domain knowledge, and an interest in integration and API testing.
What You’ll Do
Apply a QA mindset to identify expected behavior, edge cases, and negative scenarios across payroll and partner integrations
Collaborate daily with Product and Engineering to clarify, refine, and validate requirements before and during testing
Execute end-to-end testing of payroll workflows, including partner sandbox testing, triggering transmissions, and validating results in the EN application
Test and debug payroll transmission failures, partial successes, retries, and downstream impacts
Perform API testing using Postman, including validating JSON request/response payloads and HTTP status codes
Validate Swagger and API documentation against real system behavior
Analyze integration failures using employee data sheets, company reports, transmission dashboards, and remote API reports
Capture, maintain, and review test cases in Testmo with a focus on coverage, accuracy, and long-term maintainability
Participate in ticket tracking and development workflows using GitLab, including reviewing merge requests to understand scope and impact
Actively share observations, ask questions, and incorporate feedback to continuously improve testing effectiveness
Required Skills & Experience
Demonstrated alignment with Employee Navigator’s core values: humility, organization, discipline, documentation, and communication
Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills with the ability to perform root‑cause analysis
Working experience testing payroll integrations and understanding payroll concepts, workflows, and transmission processes
Solid understanding of HTTP methods and response codes (2xx, 4xx, 5xx) and their impact on integrations
Hands‑on experience using Postman for API testing and issue reproduction
Ability to read, interpret, and validate JSON payloads used in payroll integrations
Experience analyzing employee data sheets, RDR tables, and company‑level payroll reports
Familiarity with EN application workflows, including plan setup, enrollments, vendor portals, and payroll transmission boards
Ability to configure companies, plans, subscriber groups, and payroll integrations for testing purposes
Nice to Have
Experience using mock servers or controlled test data to simulate partner behavior
Familiarity with partner‑specific payroll constraints and behavioral differences
Understanding of open enrollment workflows and post‑closeout deduction transmissions
Experience reviewing automation coverage and collaborating with automation‑focused QA resources
Location & Experience Requirements
Local candidate based in the Frederick office
1+ years of experience working with the Employee Navigator application
Strong knowledge of EN benefits and payroll functionality
Benefits This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in payroll integrations while contributing to the quality and stability of a mission‑critical platform used by thousands of companies nationwide.
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  • Frederick, Maryland, United States

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  • English
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