Quality Automation Engineer

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

**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 mínimal 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

**What could set you apart**

You should also have the ability to demonstrate 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.
- _Automation _- Automate defined test cases and test suites per project and plan; Develop test automation using automation frameworks
- _Collaboration _- Collaborate with peers, Product Owners and Test Lead to understand product functionality and specifications to create effective test cases and test automation
- _Execution _- Define methods of bug prevention, testability strategies and other advanced testing concepts; Define test cases and create scripts based on assessment and understanding of product specifications and test plan; Create automation test plans; Execute test cases that validate product functionality per the test plan; Record testing results and defects with details to reproduce the issue in JIRA and Zephyr
- _Quality Focus _- Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status updates; Peer review created test automation with other SDETs; Monitor product development by using JIRA stats to measure product quality; Review all requirements/acceptance criteria to assure completeness and coverage
- _Risk Mitigation _- Work with team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes