Quality Engineer

Description :

- 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 :

- Independently develop scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks for testing software solutions.

- Specify and automate test scenarios and test data for a highly complex business by analyzing integration points, data flows, personas, authorization schemes and environments.

- Develop regression suites, develop automation scenarios, and move automation to an agile continuous testing model.

- Pro-actively and collaboratively taking part in all testing related activities while establishing partnerships with key stakeholders in Product, Development/Engineering, and Technology Operations.

What Experience You Need :

- Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or equivalent experience.

years of software testing experience.

- Able to create and review test automation according to specifications.

- Ability to write, debug, and troubleshoot code in Java, Springboot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

- Creation and use of big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others with respect to software validation.

- Created test strategies and plans.

- Led complex testing efforts or projects.

- Participated in Sprint Planning as the Test Lead.

- Collaborated with Product Owners, SREs, Technical Architects to define testing strategies and plans.

- Design and development of micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubeneties.

- Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.

- Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.

What Could Set You Apart :

An ability to demonstrate successful performance of our Success Profile skills, including : .

- Attention to Detail Define test case candidates for automation that are outside of product specifications.

- Negative Testing; Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly and conform to standards.

- Automation Automate defined test cases and test suites per project.

- Collaboration Collaborate with Product Owners and development team to plan and and assist with user acceptance testing; Collaborate with product owners, development leads and architects on functional and non-functional test strategies and plans.

- Execution Develop scalable and reliable automated tests; Develop performance testing scripts to assure products are adhering to the documented SLO/SLI/SLAs; Specify the need for Test Data types for automated testing; Create automated tests and tests data for projects; Develop automated regression suites; Integrate automated regression tests into the CI/CD pipeline; Work with teams on E2E testing strategies and plans against multiple product integration points.

- Quality Control Perform defect analysis, in-depth technical root cause analysis, identifying trends and recommendations to resolve complex functional issues and process improvements; Analyzes results of functional and non-functional tests and make recommendation for improvements; Performance / Resilience : Understanding application and network architecture as inputs to create performance and resilience test strategies and plans for each product and platform.

- Conducting the performance and resilience testing to ensure the products meet SLAs / SLOs.

- Quality Focus Review test cases for complete functional coverage; Review quality section of Production Readiness Review for completeness; Recommend changes to existing testing methodologies for effectiveness and efficiency of product validation; Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status and project updates.

- Risk Mitigation Work with Product Owners, QE and development team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes.

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