Data Engineer (Data Warehouse Tester)-Ft. Worth, TX

Data Engineer (Data Warehouse Tester)

Location: Ft. Worth, TX Rate: DOE $/hr. Position Type: Contract Interview Process: Phone Followed by F2F

Job Description

Qualification - Must Have:

• Database Technologies
• QA Testing experience
• Testing Methodologies
• SQL
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills

Nice to Have:

• Agile Methodology
• Data Quality Assessments
• Oracle
• Rally Software Tool
• Teradata
• Airlines Background

POSITION PURPOSE: Plans, designs, executes testing for Data Warehouse projects to certify that they meet business and technical requirements. With minimum supervision:

• Analyzes testability of requirements
• Provides testing estimate
• Designs and prepares Test Strategies & Approach, testing metrics and other testing artifacts.
• Creates test cases based on requirements and conducts reviews with development team/business users.
• Prioritize and Executes functional tests and regression tests
• Reports defects, raises issues or concerns
• Participates in design meetings, risk analysis meetings
• Provides leadership and mentoring to junior staff, interns, and business testers
• Create and maintain quality assurance standards and processes.
• Monitor common business specific quality measurement frameworks and track improvement against predefined metrics.
• Plan and deploy software/DWH testing and project management processes based on the current methodologies of the company.
• Create and monitor quality assurance-related activities at both the program and project level to ensure appropriately planned and executed.

QUALIFICATIONS (years 1+, 2+ etc) (knowledgeable, ability, extensive, expert, proficient, conversant):

• Undergraduate degree in CS/CE/CIS/MIS or Engineering/Technology or related field or equivalent experience/training
• 5+ years experience of database testing in PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, Teradata and Oracle
• 5+ years of professional Corporate Data Warehousing & ETL experience (DataStage/Informatica)
• 8+ years software testing/QA experience
• 8+ years of QA and/or application development experience
• Good knowledge of testing methodologies (SDLC, Agile, etc.);
• Must have solid understanding on Data Quality and data management.
• Airline knowledge/experience;
• Data analysis tools experience (Quest TOAD suite, Informatica DVO)
• Testing tools experience (MS Visual Studio Team System, QC, Test Director, others)
• Solid understanding of relational databases;
• Change agility, good verbal and written communication skills, detail oriented.
• Demonstrates initiative, follow-through, sound business judgment