Software Engineer II

at  EXPERIAN

Company Description
Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realize their financial goals and help them to save time and money.
We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.
We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and innovate. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland.
Learn more at Experian plc | Bringing financial health to all

Job Description

• Interacts with the Product Owner / Business Analyst to define, refine, develop, test and deliver against functional requirements
• Understands and translates functional into technical requirements
• Works with an architecture team to design the components of the product suite
• Provides input to the project delivery plan, including sizing and estimation if required, with regards to one’s areas of responsibility
• Coordinates the work within the boundaries of their teams and project
• Being accountable for the quality of one’s team and supporting through code review processes and testing strategies as a whole-team approach
• Implements correct, performant and reliable code on schedule and according to specification
• Determines code quality and test coverage, and designing and implementing tests to make sure software is built to the highest quality possible
• Develops and maintains test automation efficiency and effectiveness
• Responsible for defect closure and root cause analysis to avoid regressions
• Drives continual improvement in quality and efficiency, including defect prevention/ root cause analysis, suggesting and adopting improvements to technology and efficiency
• Collaborates and partners across different departments including support, consulting, product management, and engineering
• Writes technical documentation for internal or external consumption, for developers of varying skills level
• Influences system designs and plans from a testing perspective
• Reviews, analyses and improves test coverage and reduces defect count for their product area
• Collaborate with developers to bring new software releases and services into production
• Automate everything from deployment, monitoring, management and incident response - treat ‘Everything as Code’
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Candidate ideally possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering (Computer/Telecommunication) or numerical discipline with strong computing background
• Strong programming, troubleshooting, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Relevant understanding of process and methodologies that drive scalable software development and software testing
• Good communication, organisational & interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills to debug and trace issue to provide a fix
• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast moving and challenging (and somewhat ambiguous) environment
• Have strong interest in DevOps, Build and Release Engineering. Internship or other previous experience in DevOps, Infrastructure operations or similar would be considered as an advantage

BENEFICIAL SKILLS:

• Understanding and familiarity with some good Java design and Software Engineering processes/methods such as :
• Java 8 Programming and above
• Cloud experiences - Basic EKS understanding
• Architecture design
• Foundation in REST knowledge
• Design Patterns
• Basic UI/UX understanding
• Refactoring
• Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Maven , Git and BitBucket
• CI/CD, DevOps and Test Automation
• TDD – Test Driven Development, BDD – Behavioral Driven Development
• Automated unit testing (e.g. Junit , Groovy)
• Automated functional testing (e.g. TestNG, Cucumber, Selenium)
• Mocking Framework (e.g. JMockit, Mockito, WireMock)
• Exposure to any relevant Open Source tools & Frameworks, Ajax, Spring, JSF, Ant, Subversion, Maven, CruiseControl, Hibernate/JPA, Junit, JMS, SOAP, Axis, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible and Cucumber
• Fair understanding in Kubernetes (EKS, OpenShift) and cloud technology – AWS, Azure
• Fair understanding in Continuous integration tools - Jenkins, Maven, Gradle
• Comfortable working in Linux environment: Ubuntu / Debian, Redhat / CentOS
  Additional Information

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