Staff Software Engineer – Quality Automation  

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 270 data centers across the globe. Platform Equinix helps the world's digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver extraordinary experiences, and transform people's lives. 

Equinix is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Quality Automation to join our Strategic Service Management team. Strategic Service Management is chartered to provide end-to-end observability for infrastructure at IBXs. 

The ideal candidate will have experience in Quality Automation in Java based cloud-native applications, and Agile-scrum methodology. The candidate will be responsible for operating in a DevOps environment and working with a globally distributed development team with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will possess excellent communication and organization skills and a customer-focused attitude. They will be a great team member, demonstrate high curiosity, and be driven to get results relentlessly.  

Job Responsibilities:  

• Work with Product Management and other key stakeholders to develop effective and efficient business solutions.  

• Develops test plans, test suites, automate and execute tests on software UI, APIs, microservices and data platform. 

• Creates, owns, manages test data for end-to-end testing. 

• Executes and certifies performance tests. 

• Leads enhancement of quality processes, test frameworks, tools and promotes quality best practices to ensure software quality in a continuous integration environment. 

• Drives the end-to-end testing of features and certifies features for sprints and releases. 

• Responsible for setting up test environments. 

• Engages and communicates test results and highlights any potential quality risks to stakeholders. 

• Participates and is a key contributor in bug triage process. 

• Reviews and provides input to developers on functional test cases. 

• Collaborates effectively with stakeholders, including Product Owners, Developers and other Quality Engineers. 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors or master’s in computer science or equivalent with 5+ years hands-on quality automation experience in Java based cloud-native applications. 

• Strong computer programming foundation with knowledge of Data Structures, Concurrency, Algorithms, Design Patterns, and Best Practices.  

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with UI Testing and automation for a Global Software as a Service application. 

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with automating tests for RESTful APIs, microservices and data platform. 

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Agile-scrum methodology and Test-driven development. 

• 4+ years of experience with performance testing. 

• Expertise in data modeling and relational design using RDBMS and NoSQL such as Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.  

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio.  

• Experience using a public cloud like AWS, Azure, or GCP.  

• Excellent communication, organization, and presentation skills.  

Successful candidate will  

• "Keep Customer at the Center" of everything they do. 

• “Foster Belonging” and “Create Clarity Always” for their team and all stakeholders. 

• “Adapt With Speed" to the evolving landscape of opportunities and risks and "Take Accountability" of the outcomes. 

• Exhibit a high curiosity growth mindset and will keep tabs on the latest trends & technologies to drive innovation. 

• Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence.