Job Description

The Role: Experian Verifications is a new domain that is building a market in the UK. We will be launching the MVP in January 2022 and are now investing in our long-term roadmap to deliver market leading features across a variety of distribution verticals such as mortgages, auto, background checking and debt management. Its premise is to enable our clients to build fully digital journeys by providing key Income and employment data. As a QA Engineer in the Verifications team you will have a passion for creating well designed, robust, reusable automated testing infrastructure for finding holes in code and flaws in user journeys before they get anywhere near a customer. Working closely with our Developers, Architects and Product Owners you will grow to understand the domain we are in before executing against the testing strategy. Our Tech: We\'re using .Net Core 2/3 in a growing number of services and are always keen to evaluate new features in Azure to see if we can take advantage of them. We\'ve got a growing collection of core services running as Azure Web Apps, pushed through our environment using a combination of Azure DevOps for source control, build and release and Octopus Deploy for the backbone of our CI pipeline. We use a variety of tools and tech to aid the testing automation of our platforms and are keen to evolve them if there are better ones for the job. Currently our tool set includes Specflow, Cypress and Postman. Key Responsibilities: To perform automation/manual quality assurance and testing on various applications that are central to the verifications business. Engage in adopting test strategy to ensure high-quality output and involve in evolving QA processes. Design test scripts, test data, and execute test cases for complex technical and business solutions. Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions, review and provide feedback and test effort on user stories. Review QA related issues in a timely fashion (defects/tickets) and ensure that bugs are handle with severity & priority. Build and maintain regression test packs for each release. To become involved in Test automation as that becomes core to the QA model. Create & maintain automated test suites & framework. Execute test plans to agreed timescales and provide regular updates to the QA test lead/manager. Proactively identify potential risks in achieving personal and project timescales and report appropriately. Qualifications Experience Testing - both manual and automated with a keen sense of what good looks like. Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills. Be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, attention to detail, can-do attitude, self-starter & proactive approach to problem-solving. Highly organised with a strong eye for detail. Required Technical Skills/Knowledge Extensive experience in Test Management and Automation Tools - such as JIRA, Zephyr, Selenium, SpecFlow, Postman, REST APIs Hands on Experience in C# Coding Strong experience in UIs and APIs automated test creation. (minimum three years) Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, manual and automated test techniques, tools, processes and best practice Possess a strong background in writing automated functional and integration tests in the Protractor test framework (Javascript/Typescript) Understand where & when automation testing fits into the SDLC, specifically Agile (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) Familiar with good development practices to create and maintain clean, readable code to industry standards. Experience defining and executing non-functional tests cases using standard testing techniques Additional Information Experian Careers - Creating a better tomorrow together

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