Software Engineer I

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments – from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 21,700 people operating across 30 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. With corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, we are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group.

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

• 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

• 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 

Additional Information

• Understanding and familiarity with some good Java design and Software Engineering processes/methods such as:

• Architecture design 

• Design Patterns

• Refactoring

• Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc.) 

• CI/CD, DevOps and Test Automation

• TDD – Test Driven Development, BDD – Behavioral Driven Development

• Automated unit testing (e.g. JUnit) 

• 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 

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