Lead Quality Automation Engineer

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds,  and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

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 areas (or willing to relocate for this position) and adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). This is an Alpharetta based position.

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

• 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

• Test Strategy Development: Develop and implement test strategies for validating the functionality, performance, and scalability of our batch processing platform.

• Automated Testing Pipeline: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of automated testing pipelines to ensure continuous integration and delivery of high-quality software.

• Quality Assurance Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of quality assurance engineers to execute test plans effectively, prioritize testing efforts, and deliver timely feedback to developers.

• Performance Testing: Design and execute performance tests to identify bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and ensure the scalability of our batch processing platform.

• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including software developers, data engineers, and product managers to ensure alignment on quality goals and requirements.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve testing processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of quality assurance efforts.

• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including test plans, test cases, and testing results to support regulatory compliance and auditing requirements.

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 c