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 Automation Engineer (SDET) 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.
To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Atlanta areas (or willing to relocate for this position) and adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Alpharetta is a preferred location but will also consider Midtown/Atlanta or St. Louis as a secondary option. This role is currently not sponsorship eligible (will not be able to consider applicants that require sponsorship currently or in the future). 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
• 5-7 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 of and use of Cloud Services (GCP preferred) / big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others with respect to software validation
• Has created test strategies and plans
• Can lead 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

What Could Set You Apart

• Cloud Certifications strongly preferred
• 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.