What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Quality Assurance Analyst position at Lumiere Systems?
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
- The Data Quality Assurance Analyst candidate will work closely with product owners, developers and project managers to define and prioritize testing data requirements.
- The candidate will add value to the team by validating the data quality, data accuracy, and data integrity by testing various reports and the data sets requested by business users.
- Work closely with the Business Analyst in gathering requirements to understand and identify business needs and the objectives related to the required data elements.
- Perform analysis on the data requirements and clarify any questions with business stakeholders to clarify the data requirements.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for both manual and automated testing.
- Validate reports to ensure data quality, data accuracy, and data consistency objectives are met.
- Create SQL scripts to build data sets based on the requirements to validate data against developed reports checking for discrepancies, data inconsistencies and counts.
- Identify and communicate any data related issues using established agency processes.
- Support business users during User Acceptance Testing; ability to answer or investigate any questions or issues raised.
- Design and maintain automated test scripts using Microsoft technologies.
- Education Required: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience Required: 5 years of relevant QA Data Analyst/ETL testing/Data quality testing.
- Advanced level of SQL Server database query language (TSQL).
- Experience in context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing.
- Basic understanding of programming.
- Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with developers and business experts.
- Ability to work as part of a self-directed team, in which tasks are determined daily in coordination with co-workers, rather than being assigned.
- Ability to excel in a collaborative and distributed team environment.
- Ability to work with a minimal amount of direction while being pro-active in keeping their management informed of project related issues.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to respectfully question ideas and share a point of view with others in support of the business requirements and needs.
- Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of employees ranging from entry level to senior leadership.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time and shift priorities quickly.
- Proven strong problem-solving skills, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong aspiration to learn new technologies.
- Experience in the education industry is preferred.
- Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team preferred.
- Experience with TFS, MTM and MS Test is preferred.
- LOCAL ARIZONA CANDIDATES ONLY
- Candidates should apply with the ability and willingness to work in-office up to five days per week as business needs necessitate.
- Standard 7-year background check
- Is a Fingerprint Clearance Card (FPCC) Required? - Yes
