Data Quality Engineer

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Data Quality Engineer to be based at their client's office in Cardiff, UK.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Cardiff office 2-3 days per week .

This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

As part of a multi-discipline team challenged with building in a cloud data platform, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the services and applications customer is developing.

Key Responsibilities

• Defining tools and frameworks to develop and maintain test automation
• Identifying test automation opportunities
• Working closely with the development team to define strategy and best practices
• Looking for opportunities to "Shift left" testing and test automation
• Providing clear and accurate documentation for the tests and test automation
• Contributing towards the continuous improvement of testing and test automation practices
• Integrating automated tests with the CI/CD pipeline
• Sharing best practice and owning the testing process is in all cadence ceremonies
• You will also be expected to keep your skills up to date by following advancements in testing and test automation

Key Requirements

Essential:

• Hands-on experience with Data Testing either with Python or Pyspark
• Deep understanding of data test concepts primarily inclined towards ETL
• Hands-on with ETL/DWH testing and SQL (any RDBMS)
• Hands-on experience with any DB, preferably Oracle and should be able to read/understand/alter stored procedures
• Strong experience in BDD with Cucumber or similar framework
• Experience in Azure DevOps to integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins or GitLab runner
• Good Knowledge in GCP Storage Buckets, BigQuery, Dataflow and Cloud Function. (Any Cloud)
• Hands-on experience with one of more programming languages (Java/JavaScript)
• Experience with non-functional testing with JMeter or similar
• Proven experience and ability to create best practices and policies to improve quality at program level
• Strong technical skills and ability to solve Quality Engineering technical problems
• Strong problem-solving skills and managing multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and should be able to manage client stakeholders and act as a liaison between QE team and clients
• Experience managing a mid-size team of QAs working on multiple products
• Accomplishes quality assurance objectives by monitoring, reviewing, and enforcing policies and procedures
• Analyze production data to identify areas of growth
• Excellent data analysing and review skills
• Experience of working in an agile environment and the role of QA in agile ceremonies
• Knowledge on Jira, Zephyr for Test Management
• Proficient Testing experience

Desirable:

• Experience with automating tests within Cloud Platform
• Programming knowledge in Java
• An enthusiastic mentor for the team to adopt automation as a definition of done.
• Leading test automation strategy and mentoring testers on the automation testing process.
• Experience of software development or data engineering.

Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.

If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.