Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Test Data Engineer III is accountable for test data availability, security, reliability, and integrity within a given IT application domain, and collaboratively across other app domains.

Essential Functions

1. Perform as a test data subject matter expert (SME) for a domain.
2. Automate and oversee test data refresh and provisioning processes.
3. Work collaboratively with customers, business partners, project managers, portfolio leads, and IT application teams to understand business data requirements.
4. Perform as a test data subject matter expert for business data requirements, test planning, and test data solutions for new or existing technologies.
5. Collaborate with Information Security to triage and perform root cause analysis on data-related incidents occurring in the non-production environments.
6. Assist Information Security in preventing the introduction of PHI into secure environments and eliminating the exposure of protected data to unauthorized sources.
7. Establish and publish test data management performance metrics.
8. Lead Test Data Governance sessions.
9. Maintain test data management’s de-identification solution by coordinating additional algorithm refinement and testing for new PHI/PII fields.
10. Oversee file masking solution and evaluate the performance and quality of the transmission from raw to masked files for use within protected environments.
11. Identify and implement optimization for making the test data creation process efficient and faster.
12. Introduce, educate, and train test data management practices to the organization.
13. Collaborate with Release Management to publish data refresh dates.
14. Catalog and maintain test data libraries specific for reuse and refinement.
15. Coordinate and manage vendor relationships.

Education And Experience

1. Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required.
2. Five (5) years of Software Quality, Application Development, or Data Science experience is required.
3. Three (3) years hands-on test data management engineering experience required.
4. Experience in test data management, test strategy, testing planning, and execution.

Competencies, Knowledge And Skills

1. Knowledge of Delphix data masking and virtualization, and implementation of a data provisioning solution.
2. Competent with multiple scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, etc.
3. Familiar with agile, scrum or SDLC methodologies.
4. Expert-level knowledge, skills, and background with Microsoft SQL and Data Transmission/integration experience (SSIS).
5. Familiar with unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data preferred (Relational databases both distributed (SQL Server) and various structured file formats).
6. Knowledge of various environmental elements as they relate to testing and test data management.
7. Strong learning competency and ability to teach others.
8. Testing and technical planning skills with IT architecture design and Application Development.
9. Basic understanding of PHI/PII Elements and Safe Harbor Standards.
10. Advanced troubleshooting/problem-solving capabilities.
11. Background in enterprise data warehouse solution preferred.
12. Knowledge of the healthcare and managed care philosophy and culture preferred.