Quality Automation Engineer-Entry

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

• Participate in designing and building test automation frameworks and coding automated test suites

• Work with multiple, cross-functional sprint teams to support our automated test-driven methodology

• Assist with development of test automation processes and standards to enable consistent, high-quality automated tests, identifying tests ready for automation and automation test peer review, and support testing efforts by creating, maintaining, improving and expanding automation test suites.

• Support continuous integration development efforts, and the project goal of continuous improvement.

• Participate in all testing tasks including review of all requirements/acceptance criteria, manual testing, defect tracking, verification and validation support

What experience you need

• BS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required

• Less than 2 years of software development in testing experience

• Testing technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Office products

• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

What could set you apart

• You have experience with performance engineering and profiling (e.g. Java JVM, Databases) and tools such as Load Runner, JMeter

• You have some exposure to Application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk

• You are able to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover) to ensure 80% or higher code coverage

• You have strong development skills and can code with Java and Spring

• You have experience working in a TDD/BDD environment and can utilize technologies such as JUnit, Rest Assured, Appium, Jbehave/Cucumber frameworks, APIs (REST/SOAP)

• You understand Continuous Delivery concepts and can use tools including Jenkins/Bamboo and vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.

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

• Attention to Detail - Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly and conform to standards; Organizes own work, following established standards and processes while taking direction from others

• Automation - Automate defined test cases and test suites per project; Assist in developing test automation standards

• Collaboration - Collaborate with peers to understand product functionality and specifications; Collaborate with multiple, cross-functional sprint teams to support automated test-driven methodology

• Execution - Participate in creating and maintaining test automation frameworks and test suites; Participate in all testing tasks including automated and manual testing, testing support; Expand and maintain test automation created from product specifications and test plan; Identify tests cases as "ready" for automation; Record test automation results and defects with details to reproduce the issue in JIRA and Zephyr

• Quality Control - Create defects as a result of test execution with correct severity and priority; Analyzes discrete sets of information from functional and non-functional test execution; Assist in integrating test automation in the CI environment; Perform verification and validation support

• Quality Focus - Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status updates; Peer review created test automation with other SDETs; Review all requirements/acceptance criteria

• Risk Mitigation - Work with QE team lead to track and determine prioritization of discovered defects

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!

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