Data Reporting & UAT Analyst

Job DescriptionJob Description Ideal Candidate Profile: Seeking a Data Reporting & UAT Analyst with Medicaid/Medicare experience and strong expertise in data testing, validation, and SQL development, particularly in Teradata environments. The ideal candidate will have experience developing test plans, identifying data discrepancies, generating operational reports, and translating business requirements into actionable dashboards using tools such as Tableau or Power BI. Strong knowledge of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, claims, and regulatory reporting, along with experience coordinating with business stakeholders, QA, development teams, and third-party vendors, is highly preferred. Job Duties & Responsibilities: Data Testing & Validation: Design, execute, and document comprehensive test cases and validation scripts to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across data pipelines, ETL processes, and reports. Data Extraction & Reporting: Write, optimize, and execute complex SQL queries against our data warehouse (in Teradata) to pull scheduled and ad-hoc operational and analytical reports. Vendor Collaboration: Act as the primary technical point of contact for our data warehouse vendor, escalating performance bottlenecks, troubleshooting data loading issues, and tracking resolutions. Reporting & Visualization: Translate business requirements into intuitive, actionable data visualizations and dashboards using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker Data Governance & Documentation: Maintain documentation of data definitions, reporting logic, testing procedures, and data warehouse schemas to ensure organization-wide transparency. Preferred Experience: Working knowledge of state and federal Medicaid policy and regulatory reporting requirements preferred. Required Skills & Experience: Domain Knowledge: Strong experience with Medicaid or Medicare. Prior experience working on federal or state legislative policy implementations (e.g., CMS rules, HR1 provisions, Medicaid expansion/unwinding efforts). Technical Experience: 3 years of experience as a Data Analyst, Data Quality Analyst, or similar role with a heavy focus on data testing and SQL development. Technical Expertise: Advanced SQL skills specifically within Teradata environments (including performance tuning, BTEQ, and Teradata SQL Assistant). Testing & QA: Demonstrated experience writing test plans, performing data validation, and identifying data anomalies or discrepancies. Collaboration: Experience working closely with third-party vendors, IT infrastructure teams, or database administrators to manage system updates and resolve issues. Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field. Additional skills/experience should include: Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to prepare and present reports on complex concepts and findings to all levels of the organization. Strong quantitative analysis skills, including working knowledge of SAS, SQL, data mining software, statistical validation techniques, predictive modeling construction, and data visualization. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, implement, and monitor large scale/time sensitive projects; and to work collaboratively across teams. Must be well organized, with the ability to prioritize work and possess great attention to detail and accuracy and an ability to complete multiple complex assignments within short time frames and with minimal direction. Experience working with Medicaid eligibility and enrollment data, health plans' operations and data (encounters, claims, clinical quality, etc.) strongly preferred. Working knowledge of state and federal Medicaid policy and regulatory reporting requirements preferred.