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. To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Atlanta, GA . You are required to adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). 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 minimal 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 Attention to Detail - Define test case candidates for automation that are outside of product specifications. i.e. Negative Testing; 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 - Automate defined test cases and test suites per project Collaboration - Collaborate with Product Owners and development team to plan and and assist with user acceptance testing; Collaborate with product owners, development leads and architects on functional and non-functional test strategies and plans Execution - Develop scalable and reliable automated tests; Develop performance testing scripts to assure products are adhering to the documented SLO/SLI/SLAs; Specify the need for Test Data types for automated testing; Create automated tests and tests data for projects; Develop automated regression suites; Integrate automated regression tests into the CI/CD pipeline; Work with teams on E2E testing strategies and plans against multiple product integration points Quality Control - Perform defect analysis, in-depth technical root cause analysis, identifying trends and recommendations to resolve complex functional issues and process improvements; Analyzes results of functional and non-functional tests and make recommendation for improvements; 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 - Review test cases for complete functional coverage; Review quality section of Production Readiness Review for completeness; Recommend changes to existing testing methodologies for effectiveness and efficiency of product validation; Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status and project updates Risk Mitigation - Work with Product Owners, QE and development team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes