Senior Data QA

Senior Data QA

Marcus Donald are now searching for a Senior Data QA to join a client in Canary Wharf.

In this role you will be responsible for the testing and validation of data pipelines and showcasing it to SME’s to learn whether it meets their business outcomes. You will be an expert at working in cloud environments, such as on Hortonworks and Cloudera based Hadoop clusters.

Key Skills as a Senior Data QA

• Understanding of Quality Assurance data practices
• Awareness of OWASP top 10 security considerations and associated tools
• Analysing regression reports, automated builds and KPI's
• 3+ years’ experience in one of JS/Java/C#
• Experience of Test-Driven Development applying pair programming and refactoring principles
• Writing BDD acceptance criteria or scenarios
• Writing unit tests and mocking the data
• Participated in full development data lifecycle
• desire to develop strong experience in SQL/HQL for complicated queries
• Automated test framework development from scratch using Python
• Big Data technologies like PySpark/Yarn and Hive
• Linux
• Azure
• Using considerable data sizes (TB/PB)
• Oozie/Jenkins exposure
• JIRA exposure

Key Responsibilities as a Senior Data QA

• Validate software delivered by Data Engineers against user story requirements
• Ensure principles of privacy and security are assessed and designed into your data solutions
• Writing high quality, generalised test datasets and test methods for verifying and validating new functional and non-functional software, enabling automated testing wherever possible
• Generating golden datasets to stress-test software and assure version control
• Report QA outcomes to DE’s and Business Owners
• Work in an Agile environment
• Develop new and maintain existing functionality to QA testing for the Data Services platform
• Provide documentation and training material to support knowledge retention
• Maintaining a high-quality audit trail of your software testing
• Ensure that software has had an auditable trail of quality assurance testing conducted on it in accordance with data governance expectations
• Ensure business solutions comply with Privacy and Security requirements
• Share knowledge and best practice with colleagues and stakeholders
• Ensure Data product owners are satisfied that code has been robustly demonstrated to meet their needs

If you feel that you are a suitable for this Senior Data QA position, please apply via this job advert. Alternatively, contact Joe directly on 0203 328 0400.

Senior Data QA