Automation Engineer

Company: Han IT Staffing
Location: Wayne
Posted on: January 21, 2023

Job Description:

Title : Senior Quality Engineer/Automation Tester -SDET

Location: St. Louis MO (Onsite - Can do Hybrid)

Duration: 18+ months



Description:

Quality engineering team within Equifax is about creating an ecosystem to achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction.
--- Unlike similar Quality roles in other organizations, this position needs deep understanding of software development, architecture, and performance engineering to help drive quality early in the life cycle of a product development.
--- This position will be responsible for delivering the Quality Engineering services (Code quality, Testing Services, Performance Engineering, Testing and Environment automation, Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration)


Key Responsibilities:
--- Position requires an extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open-source agile testing frameworks. This position delivers the product quality deliverables, and release level quality
--- Interacts with technology staff including Quality Engineers, Operations, Developers, Devops Engineers, Product management, and Product Architecture to identify scope of project/s and deliver services.
--- Works on quality engineering, exploratory testing, and test automation tasks covering all key practice areas including web, API, and batch jobs testing.
--- Drive adoption of development services (Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Collaboration) amongst various delivery teams.
--- Understand end-customer needs and associated value chain to drive processes and practices to ensure flawless customer experience.
--- Foster strategic thinking and continuous learning to help Equifax continue to lead as a technology company providing differentiating high-quality products
Qualifications:

Bachelor/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience with Quality Engineering practices and concepts.

--- Ability 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.
--- Sound knowledge of Java, Spring, JUnit, Eclipse IDE, Rest Assured, Appium, Jbehave/Cucumber frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), Continuous Delivery concepts and tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo, vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.
--- Proficient with Test Case and Defect Management skills across SDLC process is required
--- Demonstrated software development, testing, and coding skills are required
--- Good knowledge of architecture, common design patterns, test data generation tools highly desirable.
--- Expertise in agile delivery, and life-cycle management tools (JIRA/Rally/Rational Concert), software testing standards, methods and conventions.
--- Experience with performance engineering and profiling (e.g. Java JVM, Databases) and tools such as Load Runner, JMeter. Exposure to Application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk desirable.
--- Exposure to Cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-code concept, and tools such as Chef/Puppet desirable.
--- Expertise with cross browser and cross device testing strategies and automation via device clouds (Perfecto, Device Anywhere, Testdroid, etc)

Few Imp notes from Equifax

* Interviewer focused questions more on BDD framework, Automation( frontend, api and database).

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• For databases: Questions on validations, automation framework they worked on, data etc.
  
• As candidate had cloud experience, interviewer focused on connection steps, service used.
  
• Scenario questions like: How to develop bdd templates, connecting bdd feature files to java classes, connecting feature file with step defn functions.
  
• Questions on API testing (both manual and automation): Validating responses.
  
  
  Below, mentioned points should highlight Equifax's SQE requirements:
  
  
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  • Hands-on with Automation frameworks (Selenium, BDD framework (cucumber))
    
  • Hands-on with database validation with (SQL query knowledge)
    
  • Hands-on with API testing (manual and automation)
    
  • Exposure with Cloud services. GCP plus point.
    
  • Good understanding of Pipeline, and automating test scripts in multiple environments (dev, test, prod etc.)
    
    
    
    
    

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