Senior Data QA Engineer (#3238)

N-iX is seeking for a Senior Data QA Engineer

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts. 

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America. 

Responsibilities:

• Create and Improve Test Plans: Develop and improve test plans for data-related functionalities.
• Test Automation Setup: Prepare the basis for test automation setup.
• Establish Data Quality Standards: Enforce and improve data quality standards across datasets.
• Support Team Members: Provide recommendations and support to QA team members.
• Improve Testing Processes: Contribute to process improvements within the testing team.
• Collaboration with Teams: Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and stakeholders to integrate and validate data within data warehousing solutions like Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Communicate Findings: Report issues and resolutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design and Document Test Cases: Design and document test cases for data validation, ETL processes, and data workflows.
• Data Validation & Integrity Checks: Ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data.
• Analyze Data Profiles: Analyze data structures, patterns, and anomalies for effective quality assessment.
• Various Types of Testing: Perform functional, regression, integration, and performance testing on data pipelines and transformations.
• Root Cause Analysis: Investigate and resolve data-related issues through root cause analysis.
• Stay Updated: Keep up with trends, tools, and best practices in data QA.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in data analysis, quality assurance, or data automation.
• Test Plan Development: Experience creating and executing test plans, cases, and scripts for data quality assurance.
• Data Quality Frameworks: Knowledge of frameworks, profiling, validation, and cleansing techniques.
• Data Warehousing & ETL/ELT: Experience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, and data modeling.
• Proficiency in SQL: Experience with relational databases like SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Documentation: Ability to create detailed documentation of data quality processes and standards.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Intermediate English Proficiency.
• Ukrainian language - Advanced.

Nice to Have:

• Proficiency in Data Analysis Tools: Knowledge of SQL, Python, R, or similar languages for data querying and manipulation.
• Database & Kafka Knowledge: Familiarity with databases and Kafka.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation Experience: Experience with automation tools and methodologies.