Data Quality Engineer, Senior

Your Role

The Data Services Quality Engineering team is part of the BSC Data & Analytics Organization. We provide testing services for Data & Analytics projects that involve data within the enterprise from various sources through intake layers into downstream data marts. The Quality Engineer, Senior will report to the IT Manager. In this role, you will be working with Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Application, and Business teams.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

1. Develop test scenarios and underlying test scripts (Functional and SIT) based on provided requirements/design documentation and business input
2. Attend requirement sessions and evaluate requirements for testability
3. Create traceability from development handoff through testing
4. Participate in design sessions to understand implications of design to testing
5. Provide test estimates for large initiatives as requested under the guidance of testing leadership
6. Review Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Design Document (TDD), Data Model, Source-to-target mapping document (STTM)
7. Prepare Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Test Cases, Test Scripts based on BRD, TDD, STTM and review test artifacts with business users and technical team
8. Maintain test cases in the test management system and track defects in JIRA
9. Conduct daily defect calls with IT PM, Development team, and Business team
10. Provide test reports/status to Test Lead, IT PM, and discuss roadblocks if necessary
11. Perform root-cause analysis for the defects/issues and provide solutions if required
12. Follow best practices and maintain quality assurance standards
13. Work closely with cross-functional counterparts in business, development, release, and project management
14. Have proficiency working in Agile methodology
15. Provide overall technical leadership across multiple projects simultaneously
16. Have a thorough understanding of automation frameworks and ability to design, develop, and maintain automation framework
17. Execute and maintain test scripts in the automation framework for regression and smoke testing of various BSC applications
18. Have the ability to apply advanced professional principles and concepts to complex work assignments and participate and present in automation code reviews
19. Assess suitability of manual test cases for automation

Your Knowledge and Experience

1. Requires a bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience
2. 5 years of Quality Engineering experience, with 4 years of experience in Data Warehousing preferred
3. Requires at least 1 year of experience in Cloud Data Platform Testing with Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and data pipeline development using DBT Cloud/Core tool on Snowflake DB
4. Knowledge of ETL processes, Relational Database Design Methods (Snowflake/Star Schema), Slowly Changing Dimensions etc.
5. Ability to analyze error logs in UNIX, update shell scripts, and create SQL scripts
6. Ability to perform automated regression testing in all non-production environments
7. Excellent written and oral communication skills
8. Healthcare domain experience is preferable but not required
9. Preferred experience working on at least one large data warehouse project/initiative
10. Hands-on experience in using Informatica or similar ETL tool
11. Analyzing and writing testing cases based on ETL specifications/Source-to-Target Mapping documents
12. Knowledge of data & analytics in cloud
13. Demonstrate a mindset of continuous improvement in process/technology etc.
14. Experience with coding in Python or any other object-oriented programming language is preferred

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $99,000.00 to $148,500.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.