Test Development Engineer/ Consultant QA

The Consultant QA is a dynamic performer who can work in a multi-disciplinary function relating to the health and quality of TransUnion software applications. This role is primarily responsible for the quality efforts within TransUnion’s Global Quality and Custom Software Development organization.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with internal business resources and technical teams to analyze requirements to deliver solutions to complex issues, ensure testability and automation feasibility, to provide feedback on design (functional and technical)
  
• Deep understanding in industry standard methodologies of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
  
• Participate in code reviews and testing initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional technology teams including dev-ops and infrastructure.
  
• Contributes to impact assessments from Feature enhancements on system level interactions, and existing automated test suites.
  
• Conducts Test Design, Test planning, Test automation development, and Test execution.
  
• Conducts Manual Testing and uses strong Exploratory Testing to uncover weaknesses in test approaches.
  
• Create robust automated tests, focused on easy maintenance, reusability, long-term sustainability, and efficiency.
  
• Provides test consultation to Scrum team members to assist them in developing robust Unit Test suites.
  
• Is responsible for ensuring quality of their work as well as the work of the entire development team.
  
• Automation Development responsibilities include doing code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and test impacts, writing test tools, and identifying automation opportunities.
  
• Contributes to improvements in unit testing coverage, design test framework, develop test suites, expand automated testing harness, and automate scenarios/cases.
  

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in all phases of testing life cycle – requirements gathering, designing, and testing complex enterprise applications, including manual/automation test development, defect management.
  
• Passion to build robust Test suites and out of box solutions for test optimization and risk-based testing for great application products and ability to support large scale distributed systems.
  
• Hands-on experience on developing automated test strategies and frameworks for API Services test automation.
  
• Understanding of web service concepts including HTTP, SOAP, REST etc. and related technologies like JSON and XML.
  
• Expertise in Linux/Unix including shell scripting, JBOSS, Spring Boot, and other basic server administration.
  
• Knowledge of source code versioning (prefer GitHub), Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD tools is a plus.
  
• Working knowledge of testing tools and frameworks like Selenium (Java), Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, Maven builds tools, SoapUI, SpecFlow (C#), Rest Assured
  
• Strong expertise on writing DB2/SQL queries, Knowledge on database testing (DB2 and Postgres Databases), middleware / backend testing,
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated critical thinking.
  
• Engineering / bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems Management is preferred.