Quality Automation Engineer (SDET) - Intermediate

Equifax; Pune District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax in Pune is seeking a Quality Engineer who champions quality across development and testing of high-priority initiatives. You will design, execute, and maintain test plans and scripts to verify requirements, and document issues for retesting to ensure resolution.

You will develop automation strategies, test harnesses, and collaborative QA services including code quality, performance engineering, and CI integration. A strong focus on process and end-user satisfaction guides every test.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years in software test automation using Python and Pytest.
• Hands-on REST API testing experience (Bruno, Postman, or RestAssured).
• Working knowledge of GitHub version control and Jenkins CI/CD.
• Basic cloud platform awareness (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Automate functional/non-functional test suites using Pytest and Bruno.
• Build and maintain test scripts in PyCharm integrate automated tests into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Log defects and track metrics using Jira and Zephyr Enterprise.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Python

Pytest

REST API testing

GitHub

Jenkins CI/CD

Bruno

Postman

RestAssured

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Bruno

Postman

RestAssured

Jira

Zephyr Enterprise

GitHub

Jenkins

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

• 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 in software test automation using Python and Pytest
• Hands-on REST API testing experience (Bruno, Postman, or RestAssured)
• Working knowledge of GitHub version control and Jenkins CI/CD
• Basic cloud platform awareness (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Automate functional/non-functional test suites using Pytest and Bruno
• Build and maintain test scripts in PyCharm integrate automated tests into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
• Log defects and track metrics using Jira and Zephyr Enterprise.

What Could Set You Apart

You should also have the ability to demonstrate performance of our Success Profile skills, including:

• Attention to Detail - Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly and conform to standards; Organizes own work, following established standards and processes.
• Automation - Automate defined test cases and test suites per project and plan; Develop test automation using automation frameworks
• Collaboration - Collaborate with peers, Product Owners and Test Lead to understand product functionality and specifications to create effective test cases and test automation
• Execution - Define methods of bug prevention, testability strategies and other advanced testing concepts; Define test cases and create scripts based on assessment and understanding of product specifications and test plan; Create automation test plans; Execute test cases that validate product functionality per the test plan; Record testing results and defects with details to reproduce the issue in JIRA and Zephyr
• Quality Control - Create defects as a result of test execution with correct severity and priority; Analyzes discrete sets of information from functional and non-functional test execution; Assist in integrating test automation in the CI environment; 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 - Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status updates; Peer review created test automation with other SDETs; Monitor product development by using JIRA stats to measure product quality; Review all requirements/acceptance criteria to assure completeness and coverage
• Risk Mitigation - Work with team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes