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 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

Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or 7+ years of software testing experience. Worked with SREs and dev teams to define and maintain SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting quality and performance engineering standards Collaborated with the Product owners, technical architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical testing direction, guidelines, and best practices Created and delivered technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate Experience in delivering solutions for complex business testing problems through software and standard SDLC processes Experience of working with strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale Troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve test tool issues Strong experience in software testing and public cloud like GCP and/or AWS is preferred Strong domain working experience in the Financial industry strongly preferred Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

What could set you apart

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


Attention to Detail- Validate solution deployment approach for new implementations, including hardware, application requirements, upgrades, cut-over strategies and steady-state processes; Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly and conform to standards Automation- Review defined automated test cases and test suites per project for completeness and coverage; Works with other SDETs in extending framework used in test automation

Collaboration - Collaborate with product management and development teams to verify the solution deployment approach for new implementations, including hardware, application requirements, upgrades, cut-over strategies and steady-state processes; Collaborate with product owners, development leads and architects to review test strategies and plans
Execution- Recommends specific tests and inspections of products, services, solutions or processes to evaluate quality or performance; Implement dashboards to assure visibility of quality across products and environments; Implementation and rollout of QE processes and metrics, aligning them with business/customer needs and a fast-paced company dynamic; Evaluate and enforce test automation standards through peer reviews and code inspection; Work with engineering leaders to enforce production readiness, testing efficiency and productivity; Allocate associates according to skill set and experience to support testing of projects and post-production support work, cross train staff to gain technical and business knowledge. Quality Control- Define key measurements/metrics to quantify and benchmark QE effectiveness, adjusting processes for continuous improvement; Review quality section of Production Readiness Review for accuracy and completeness; Performance / Resilience: Understanding application and network architecture as inputs to create performance and resilience test strategies and plans for each product and platform. Conducting the performance and resilience testing to ensure the products meet SLAs / SLOs Quality Focus- Perform technical/business reviews and approval of proposals for new products and new clients; Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status and project updates; Represent our QE practices and strategy in customer conversations and other stakeholder conversation Risk Mitigation* - Work with Product Owners, QE and development team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes