Data Warehouse Quality Assurance - Assistant Manager

Who we are looking for:

GBM Data Warehouse team is seeking an enthusiastic, talented and motivated candidate to join us as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (SDET). You will be responsible for testing the software in an agile environment. We are looking for a candidate who can comprehend new technologies, come up to speed quickly and adapt to changing business requirements.

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, analysts, developers, and other SQA members using Agile methods to identify & refine functional/regression test cases as per business requirements and solutioning approach.
• Identify business test scenarios during iteration preplanning. Partner with analysts & PO to capture test scope -from both functional & business perspective. 
• Create testing-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, and bug reports assessing quality and associated risk.
• Create defects timely & track them using internal tools/processes like RTC & JIRA.
• Attend daily stand ups, communicate key issues, story status & any impediments.
• Participate in team demos & present completed stories with relevant data & test artifacts .
• Maintain Regression testing suite as per Release requirements.
• Prepare release tollgates for upcoming releases & request relevant stakeholder approvals.
• Lead test automation initiatives for better regression coverage & efficient checkouts.
• Run automated tests on a daily basis to identify any new issues.
• Follow up regularly to ensure defects are either fixed or deferred.
• Actively participate in Joint Integration testing (JIT), end to end testing & defect fixes by collaborating with upstream and downstream teams.
• Support BUAT testing & any cross functional bug triage.
• Analyze business user’s feedback on developed modules & discuss potential action items with analysts & PO.
• Propose & highlight any improvement areas during team retrospective meeting.

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Data Modelling.
• Data warehousing principles (OLAP vs OLTP).
• SQL queries, joins, views.
• S3 Data Lake and Presto
• Core Java, Junit Testing, TestNG framework.
• GitHub or any equivalent version control.
• Knowledge of any SWIFT, Payment & Cash systems would be a plus.
• Excellent communication skills .
• Willingness to learn new business processes/knowledge.
• Thinking from an overall product perspective/impact & not just small part of the product.

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8-10 years of professional software testing experience including test planning, test case design, test automation and test methodologies.
• Strong knowledge and experience in SQL Database testing & Java.