QE Automation Engineer - Specialist at Equifax Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri

Job 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

• Responsible for functioning as a lead in the development, implementation, and maintenance of automation frameworks, and tools development to support overall test architecture for hybrid environment (Cloud, on-premise) in order to achieve a continuous testing objective that facilitates quality delivery, reduces manual test efforts, increased efficiency and execution time and cost reduction.
• Provide reporting data and dashboards to ensure visibility of quality across products, builds and environments.
• Ensure enforcement of testing policies, standards and guidelines to drive a consistent testing framework across the business.
• Participate as a global team player and lead, pro-actively and collaboratively take part in all testing related activities and establish partnerships with key stakeholders in the Product Management, Development, and the Technology Operations teams to drive overall Quality Engineering from inception to production.
• Work with geographically dispersed agile teams including multi-vendor resources and Scrum teams to meet continuous testing and to drive the transformation of a legacy code base to be more autonomous and sustainable.
• Be viewed as a lead across the team, engaging and energizing teams to achieve aggressive goals.
• Eagerly automate and apply advanced engineering to the quality assurance discipline by continually identifying new technologies and disciplines as they emerge and sharing best practices that may be adopted across the enterprise.

What experience you need

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Business or equivalent job experience required
• 5+ years of software testing and automation experience

What could set you apart

• Experience with cloud, Infrastructure as code concept
• Expertise with cross device testing strategies and automation via device clouds
• Experience preparing and delivering executive level presentations to businesses and technology audiences
• Experience monitoring and developing resources
• Excellent coding and analytical skills
• Experience with performance engineering and profiling (e.g. Java JVM, Databases) and tools such as Load Runner, JMeter
• Strong development skills and can code with Java and Spring
• Experience working in a TDD/BDD environment and can utilize technologies such as JUnit, Rest Assured, Appium, Jbehave/Cucumber frameworks, APIs (REST/SOAP)

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