Alternative Path

To satisfy the needs of our growing data management function, our client is looking to hire a Data QA Engineer to join our Enterprise Data team. The Enterprise Data team is responsible for developing new processes, assisting with the deployment of the Client’s Data Fabric, and establishing best practices for Data Management. Our knowledgeable team is actively involved in special projects and initiatives with all departments including investments, fintech, analytics, business development, and relationship management.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data QA processes for the Client’s Data Fabric.
• Establish best practices as it relates to data quality in an enterprise wide data warehouse.
• Work with Data Engineers to ensure complete and accurate data is provided to the business users within the Client’s Data Fabric.
• Develop and implement plans for assessing the quality of new data sources
• Work with Data Engineers to evaluate and approve changes in the Client’s Data Fabric.
• Design and conduct analysis to identify and remediate data quality or integrity issues and to identify and remediate process or control gaps.
• Ability to understand and communicate effectively about the private market asset class.

Requirements

• Education and/or Experience: BA/BS in related field (e.g., engineering, information technology, mathematics, physical sciences)
• Comfort and familiarity with large data sets, star schema databases, reporting and query tools
• Must have experience with Azure and Azure Synapse Analytics, or comparable tools within AWS or GCP
• Must be proficient in one query language (e.g. MySQL, T-SQL) •
• Familiarity with star schema data models
• Must be proficient in Python and scripting, familiarity with Pandas is a plus
• Must be proficient in working on ETL and data cleaning
• 1-2 years of work experience in a financial services industry preferred
• 1 year of experience building data QA processes, financial services organization a plus
• Must be detail oriented, organized, and possess good analytical skills
• Must be able to handle multiple assignments/initiatives

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Variable Bonus
• Group Accidental Insurance
• Internet & Mobile bill Reimbursement

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior QA, to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning. 

This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process.
• Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.
• Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle.
• Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test
• Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner.
• Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines.
• Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features.
• Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools.
• Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off.
• Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future.
• Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
• Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.

Desired Skills and Experience

Technical

• Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field.
• Candidate has 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering field.
• Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Hands on experience of using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect M.
• Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.
• Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication.
• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.

Personal

• Able to question the status quo
• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Smart & agile
• Fast learner
• Able to work autonomously
• Eager to learn new technologies