Data Quality Assurance Analyst

We are hiring a Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst for our client in Downtown Boston. This is a hybrid role that will work on the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) Projects. The candidate will support the creation of a consolidated Enterprise Data Platform on a cloud–based architecture (including AWS & Snowflake) and the re‑platforming of existing business data applications from solutions such as SAS and legacy databases to the new platform. The role requires collaboration with epidemiologists, program staff, analytics teams, developers, and external partners to maintain data integrity across state public health information systems and reporting processes. Responsibilities Develop, implement, and maintain data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring procedures for state public health datasets. Develop test plans that define the scope, strategies, and evaluation criteria for testing data quality, visualizations, and end‑to‑end pipelines, based on business requirements and compliance standards. Develop test cases for testing data quality and ensuring that the data meets the quality dimensions and compliance business rules. Develop test cases to validate the visualization dashboards, including complex calculations, ETL for aggregations, functionality, and usability. Implement EDP quality checks and validation procedures as informed by epidemiologists/data stewards. Monitor key data quality dimensions such as accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity. Identify, document, track, and support resolution of data quality issues affecting the METRIK project and the various data assets needed to power public health analytic use‑cases. Establish and perform processes to monitor the technical integrity of data pipelines. Partner with epidemiologists, program managers, data stewards, and developers to assess the impact of data quality issues on analysis, reporting, and program outcomes. Validate data at various steps in the data ingestion process from staging to curation to making data available to analytics. Execute test cases, document test findings, and translate them into actionable insights for both business and technical stakeholders. Support development and maintenance of data dictionaries, metadata, and business rules. Participate in data governance and stewardship activities, including data access controls, data lineage, and standardization efforts. Support system enhancements, onboarding of new data sources, and policy‑driven data changes with quality assurance testing. Qualifications Effective and good communication skills. Ability to work with teams and independently. Undergraduate degree in a STEM discipline, business, computer science, public health, related field, or equivalent experience. Experience with state or local public health data systems (e.g., disease surveillance, immunization registries, ELR, syndromic surveillance, vital records). Familiarity with state data standards (e.g., HL7). Knowledge of HIPAA, state privacy laws, and data use agreements. Familiarity with analytic tools such as R, Python, or SAS; and reporting/visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or AWS QuickSight. Experience in creating, reviewing and maintaining end‑to‑end data platform requirements. Thorough knowledge and experience of data warehouse and a cloud‑based enterprise data solution. Cloud database platform experience such as Snowflake. Intermediate or better SQL query skills. Working knowledge with at least one business intelligence tool such as Tableau. Preferred Experience / Skills Public health experience. Amazon Web Services experience. Snowflake certification. Tableau or any other BI tool certification. Pay $64 - $67 / hour W2 depending on experience. #J-18808-Ljbffr THE PANTHER GROUP