Technology Engineering Trainee (Entry)
Equifax — Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
₹3–4 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time
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Quick answer: An entry-level engineering role at Equifax's Thiruvananthapuram office, tied to the June 2024 graduating batch. The real bar is a technology degree, coursework in Java or Python, and a genuine instinct for debugging. The rest of the posting is a wish list.
From Equifax's job posting
What You’ll Do
You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
You will translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
You will need extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks.
You will be part of a technical community and participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
You will demonstrate a real passion for innovation! Any experience with Cloud Platforms like AWS, GCP and Deploying and automating infrastructure/applications using Chef, RPM, Docker, AWS (ECS, ECR), Terraform, etc. will help us on our exciting journey
You will utilize your experience in overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
What experience you need
Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other Technology-related field (Graduation date June 2024)
Experience or coursework in Java or Python or similar programming languages.
Experience developing accessible technologies
You can write very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain
Experience in debugging, diagnosing, and trouble-shooting complex, production software
Detailed knowledge of modern software development life cycles including CI / CD
You have the ability to operate across a broad and complex business unit with multiple stakeholders
What could set you apart
UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular 12+ and Bootstrap)
Design patterns
Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD)
Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service)
Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket)
Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop or
Text from Equifax's official job posting, formatted by HireSetu. The employer's own page is the final word on details.
HireSetu's note
The required list is short
The must-haves come down to three things: a technology-related degree, coursework in Java or Python, and enough comfort with debugging to chase a problem through production code. CI/CD and the software lifecycle appear as knowledge, not years on the job. Then the "could set you apart" list runs from Angular and design patterns through Scrum, JUnit, Jenkins, SQL Server, AWS, Kafka and Cassandra. That is a decade of the industry stacked into one bullet, and no fresher covers it. Pick the two you have genuinely touched and be ready to go deep on them.
The 2024 graduation date matters
That date pins this to one hiring cohort, so read it as a campus-style entry role and not an opening for someone with work history behind them. If you are in that batch and still looking, a technology-related degree counts here, not only Computer Science. If you finished earlier or you are moving into tech from another field, the fresher framing puts you behind people this pipeline was built for.
Expect to ship code early
Trainee is a job title, not a training year. The responsibilities describe designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining software, sitting in code and design reviews, and turning requirements into architecture. Expect to read far more code than you write in your first weeks, and expect your work to be picked apart by people who have done this longer. That is the job, and it is worth deciding now whether you want it.
Trivandrum, and the shape of the week
The role sits in Thiruvananthapuram, so if you are outside Kerala, relocation is part of the decision. Get a straight answer on how many days you would be in the office before you commit to a commute or a move. On the technical side, SQL, Kafka and cloud tooling sitting alongside Java and a UI framework points to work that spans backend services and data flows. A project where you handled both the data and the interface, even a college one, is worth having ready.
Drafted with AI from Equifax's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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