P2-IDQT-200 - Quality Automation Engineer (SDET) - Intermediate

About the job

You are passionate about quality and how customers experience the products you test. You have the ability to create, maintain and execute test plans in order to verify requirements. As a Quality Engineer at Equifax, you will be a catalyst in both the development and the testing of high priority initiatives. You will develop and test new products to support technology operations while maintaining exemplary standards. As a collaborative member of the team, you will deliver QA services (code quality, testing services, performance engineering, development collaboration and continuous integration). You will conduct quality control tests in order to ensure full compliance with specified standards and end user requirements. You will execute tests using established plans and scripts; documents problems in an issues log and retest to ensure problems are resolved. You will create test files to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow. You will identify, recommend and implement changes to enhance effectiveness of QA strategies.

What You Will Do

• With limited oversight, use your experience and knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote proper engineering practice, bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility, privacy, and other advanced quality concepts across solutions.
• Develop test strategies, automate tests using test frameworks and write moderately complex code/scripts to test solutions, products and systems.
• Monitor product development and usage at all levels with an eye for product quality.
• Create test harnesses and infrastructure as necessary.
• Demonstrate an understanding of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging.
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred
• You will ensure end-customer needs and associated value chain to drive processes and practices to ensure flawless customer experience.
• You will complete application vulnerability and penetration testing with no active violations
• You will raise any issues with developers and product owners
• You will create test automation suite and design necessary documentation for automated processes
• You will shorten and amplify feedback loops to deliver products faster and with higher quality
• You will identifying regression tests for future regression scenarios
• You will identify and assure creation of re-usable, automated tests
• You will influence Change Management, CI/CD, tools integration
• You will modify SDLC to assure proper adherence to Engineering Handbook (including Security)
• You will execute all test cases, and detect defects early
• You will pretest and validate deployment plans with steps to be taken
• You will execute post-deployment verification plans and record results
• You will execute resilience testing plan and results
• You will generate code quality reports (SonarQube)
• You will put code through fortify scans via automation
• You will assure at least 80% Unit test coverage

What Experience You Need

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of software testing experience
• Able to create automated test based on functional and non-functional requirements
• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Software build management tools like Maven or Gradle
• Software testing tools like Cucumber, Selenium
• Software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies
• Testing technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Office products
• Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred
• Knowledge of Big Data Platform and GCP/Cloud Services will be a Plus.