Data QA Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Create Test Strategy, develop Test Plans  and execute Functional, System and regression tests on company's Enterprise Data Warehouse and Big data solutions.
• Educate and engage the ETL/Data/BI test team through technical mentoring and coaching.
• Ensure adherence to extensible and scalable data warehouse design and operational best practices.
• Ensure adherence, assurance and review of ETL / BI Unit Testing.
• Drive process change, specifically around quality delivery, consistency and maintainability of Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Design and deliver automation frameworks for company's Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Provide thought leadership on long term strategy planning and managing policy development to address complex business issues.
• Strategize around Data Governance, Data quality and Automation frameworks to streamline the process.
• Drive Process improvement initiatives to improve productivity.Skills

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong Understanding and Experience with QA Strategies, Plans, Process and Tools is a must
• Experience in Data (DW, Data Mart, BI and Big Data) ecosystem is must.
• 3+ years of Technical background in Traditional Data Warehouse environment and/or Big Data and cloud solutions.
• 5 or more years of hands-on experience Testing in a Data Warehouse environment required.
• Strong Experience in SQL programming, Unix scripting, Python is required.
• Strong experience in ETL Test Automation space is required.
• 5 or more years experience in analyzing, testing, documentation and maintaining complex software programs.
• 5 or more years experience in designing the Test Strategy, writing Test Cases and Test execution activities for Data Warehouse Environment.
• Strong experience in Data Quality, Source Systems Analysis, and Business Rules Validation.
• Understanding of data integration best practices in data warehouse environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills are essential.
• Would require working with business users, understanding requirements, and training them on data retrieval from DW/BI ecosystem.
• Enough practical experience to train others in decision making, risk assessment, job knowledge, analysis, and project management.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task to meet critical deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.
• JIRA experience is a Plus.
• Understanding of data modeling desired.
• Prior Development Experience with SQL, ETL would be a plus.
• Experience with HealthCare data is a major plus