QA Engineer


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26th September 2019

Location

London

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£35000 - £55000

Type

Permanent

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QA EngineerOur client who are a global media giant are in the process of recruiting an experienced QA Engineer to join their Datawarehouse team. You will be responsible for defining and executing tests on our BI and reporting platform on MicroStrategy to ensure the results are in accordance with the data sent from various data sources, such as the copyright and royalty processing system.  You will be expected to be able to follow and validate the data through the ETL processing, and interrogate the relevant databases using queries to ensure data integrity, consistency and accuracy.You will be highly involved in team participation, working closely with your SCRUM team to complete sprint work in the given timeframe.Role responsibilities:

'€¢Interrogate tables in different RDBMS databases: DB2, MySQL, SQL Server SSIS Staging and Datastore DBs, Redshift DB.'€¢Using JIRA to track defects and tasks.'€¢Actively support Agile development methods and best practices.'€¢Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications.'€¢Contribute to the overall test strategy with ideas of tools and technologies, including the use of automated testing.'€¢Test planning and execution: create, enhance and maintain effective and high-value test scenarios for report testing, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage.'€¢Carry out end-to-end, data completeness and quality, regression testing, including standard data validation and ensure data maintains integrity at all stages of transformation (ETL) and data flow.'€¢Data preparation, data loads for journaling or ETL and processing in test environments.'€¢Data reconciliation in BI reports by means of reports comparison and by executing SQL queries.

Skills required:

'€¢Software Testing experience within SDLC, preferably in an agile or iterative development environment.'€¢Experience of technologies such as R, Python, Scala, Spark and Shiny'€¢Data Warehouse (DWH), ETL and BI testing experience.'€¢Experience of relational databases and SQL, ability to write involved SQL queries to extract and interrogate data.'€¢Proficiency in Excel usage.'€¢Ability to work with complex calculations for different metrics.'€¢Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies.'€¢Experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of test scenarios.'€¢Experience in defining functional and non-functional testing frameworks.'€¢Test automation experience.'€¢Understanding of risk identification and analysis.'€¢Great communication skills.'€¢Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Desirable skills@

'€¢Experience with AWS technology, MicroStrategy BI reporting tool.'€¢Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence.'€¢ISTQB qualifications.

QA EngineerDue to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted. Proactive Appointments Limited operates as an employment agency and employment business and is an equal opportunities organisation

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