Quality Automation Engineer (SDET) – Career

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds,  and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

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

• Be viewed as a lead across the team, engaging and energizing teams to achieve aggressive goals. 

• Proactively and collaboratively take part in all testing related activities while establishing partnerships with key stakeholders in Product, Development/Engineering and Technology Operations from inception to production. 

• Be part in new Business case discussions and involving creating Test Plan/Test Strategy for Business case verification.

• Review test cases for complete functional coverage.

• Independently develop scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks for testing applications.

• Develop regression suites , automated tests and test data for projects and move automation to an agile continuous testing model.

• Develop and implement comprehensive quality assurance strategies and processes and establish and maintain a culture of quality of continuous improvement within the team.

• Responsible for supporting and  conducting Functional and Non-Functional Testing ,ensuring that products meet SLA/SLOs interms of performance.

• Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipeline.

• Work with teams on E2E testing strategies and plans against multiple product integration points.

• Analyzes results of functional and non-functional tests and make recommendation for improvements

• Perform defect analysis, in-depth technical root cause analysis, identifying trends and recommendations to resolve complex functional issues and process improvements.

• 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

• Conduct Bug Triage Meets and Work with Product Owners, QE and development team leads, to track and determine prioritization of defect fixes and support on Root Cause Analysis .

• Responsible for sharing /presenting Quality metrics across leadership teams/stakeholders on the status of Deliverables.

What experience you need

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Business or equivalent job experience required

• 7+ years of software testing and automation experience

• Expertise and skilled in programming languages  like core-Java ,python or Javascript.

• Understanding of SQL and experience working with databases like MYSQL,POSTgreSQL, or Oracle.

• Good understanding of software development methodologies(preferably Agile) & testing methodologies.

• Expertise in creating test strategies and plans.

• Participated in Sprint Planning as the Test Lead

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

• Proficiency in Framework Design for WEB & API Automation using Selenium,Appium,TestNG,Rest Assured,Karate,Gauge,Cucumber,Bruno

• Experience with performance testing tools -Jmeter , Gatling

• Deploy and release products using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts

• Knowledge of security testing concepts  to coordinate with the team on analysing security vulnerabilities in the feature deployed.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to lead and motivate teams.

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

• Testing technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Office products

• Knowledge in Test Management tool : Zephyr

What could set you apart

• Experience with cloud based testing environments(AWS,GCP)

• Hands-on experience working in Agile environments.

• Knowledge of API testing tools(Bruno,Swagger)

• Cloud certification(GCP)

• Experience with cutting-edge tools & technologies :Familiarity with the latest tools and technologies such as AI, machine learning and cloud computing.

• Expertise with cross device testing strategies and automation via device clouds

• Experience in application monitoring and performance using monitoring tools like Grafana & Datadog

We offer a hybrid work setting, comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, attractive paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible?  Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Primary Location:

IND-Trivandrum-Equifax Analytics-PEC

Function:

Function – Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule:

Full time