Senior Data Quality Analyst

Job description / Role

Our esteemed Client considered the pioneer in the banking phenomenon known as Islamic Finance or Shari’a Compliant Banking has instructed us to recruit a Data Architect.

- Develops and maintain test plans, test strategies, and test cases.
- Perform manual and automated testing of new data movement, structures, reporting and marts.
- Executes tests to compare results with requirements, to verify test requirements, to identify defects, and to ensure compliance.
- Review functional, design, and data specifications and stories to derive use cases and test plans.
- Write test scripts, use cases, SQL queries and plans to achieve identified quality assurance objectives.
- Logs defects in a detailed, understandable and reproducible manner, and tracks defects through to closure by working closely with the development team.
- Test security on new and current installations and site upgrades. Executes and evolves Quality Assurance best practices that promote the elimination or reduction of software defects.
- Writes advanced SQL queries to verify the integrity of databases including data transformations.
- Takes an active role in developing and disseminating internal QA standards and best practices.
- Participates in verification reviews and performs gap analysis.
- Authors software release notes and other supporting documentation.
- Participate in product, data and software releases, upgrades and updates.
- Write and conduct smoke testing and verification to production environments.
- Participate in Scrum project activities including backlog grooming, story development, sprint planning.
- Provides references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; providing help desk support; training users.
- Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench-marking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Perform other duties as needed or assigned.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or information systems.
- PMI-PBA preferred.
- CSQA preferred.
- CSQE preferred.

Desired Career Experience:
- Experience in a data warehousing, data analytics and financial banking environment a strong plus.
- SCRUM Team Participation.
- SCRUM QA development and refinement.

Key Skill Sets Or Knowledge Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on Data Quality and Quality Assurance experience.
- Previous proven experience supporting data quality testing and cross-functional quality assurance initiatives.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies and processes.
- Experience contributing to, and analyzing, data warehouse, software development, systems integration, and project process improvements.
- Excellent communications skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
- Excellent ability to develop and continually improve working relationships.
- Strong quality and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Must be highly motivated, creative, efficient, self-starter, strong collaborator, and completely dependable and accountable.
- Experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, TFS, Visio, and SharePoint, SQL tools.

About the Company

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