TransUnion

Test Development Engineer

TransUnion$89K — $123K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of extensive testing lifecycle experience, covering manual and automated test development.
  • Demonstrated passion for innovative testing solutions and risk-based testing for large applications.
  • Practical experience in developing automated test strategies specifically for API Services.
  • In-depth knowledge of web services and related technologies, such as HTTP, SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML.
  • Expertise in Linux/Unix environments, including shell scripting and server administration.
  • Familiarity with source code versioning (preferably GitHub), CI/CD tools, and testing frameworks like Selenium and Postman.
  • Strong communication skills complemented by a background in computer science or Information Systems.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business and tech teams to analyze and ensure testability of complex applications.
  • Apply knowledge of SDLC and STLC, focusing on Agile methodologies to improve processes.
  • Engage in code reviews and facilitate testing initiatives across teams.
  • Develop and design comprehensive test plans and execute both manual and automated tests.
  • Perform exploratory testing to identify vulnerabilities in existing test approaches.
  • Create and maintain efficient and sustainable automated test scripts.
  • Consult with Scrum teams on developing effective Unit Test suites and quality assurance practices.
  • Monitor and enhance testing frameworks and coverage through a CI/CD pipeline.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model that combines remote and in-office collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work in a newly created role with a focus on innovation and test strategy enhancements.
  • Engage with cross-functional teams to influence testing methodologies and practices.
  • Access to professional development and training in the latest testing technologies.
Full Job Description
  • 8+ 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 includes shell scripting, JBOSS, Spring Boot, and other basic server administration.
  • Knowledge of source code versioning (prefer GitHUB), Harness, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD tools is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of testing tools and frameworks like Selenium (Java or C#), RestAssured, Cucumber (BDD), Playwright, Postman, TestNG, Maven build tools, SoapUI, JIRA
  • Knowledge on database testing (Postgres and Microsoft SQL Databases), middleware / backend testing, and SQL queries
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated critical thinking.
  • Engineering / bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems Management is preferred.


Impact You'll Make:
  • 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, scrum.
  • Participate in code reviews and testing initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional technology teams including dev-ops and infrastructure.
  • Contribute to impact assessments from Feature enhancements on system level interactions, and existing automated test suites.
  • Conduct Test Design, Test planning, Test automation development, and Test execution.
  • Conduct 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.
  • Provide test consultation to Scrum team members to assist them in developing robust Unit Test suites.
  • Responsible for ensuring quality of their work, team deliveries and department goals.
  • Automation Development responsibilities including: doing code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and test impacts, writing test tools, and identifying automation opportunities.
  • Contribute to improvements in functional testing coverage, design test framework, develop test suites, expand automated testing harness via CI/CD.


The expected pay range for this position is $89,000 - $123,000 annually. The pay information provided for this position reflects a reasonable estimate of the range of expected compensation for this job. At TransUnion, actual compensation is based on careful consideration of many factors such as (but not limited to) an individual's education, training, work experience, job related skill set, location, and industry knowledge, as well as the scope and responsibilities of the position and market considerations. In addition, variable compensation is based on applicable company guidance and plan documents as well as performance.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. The opening is the result of a newly created position.

TransUnion's Internal Job Title:
Consultant, Quality Assurance

About TransUnion

TransUnion is a consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries including "200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active consumer in the United States". Its customers include over 65,000 businesses. Based in Chicago, Illinois, TransUnion's 2014 revenue was US$1.3 billion.
Learn more about TransUnion
Size
10,200 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$343.1 million
Founded
1968
5 Year Trend
+11.7%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
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