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As a QA Automation Engineer in our Enterprise Data department, you will be

responsible for creating and managing automated tests to identify issues with the ETL

process to ensure the quality of data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

The role involves working together with the onshore Enterprise Data team to decide on

the required tests on the process, automate them through creating stored procedures,

custom dbt tests and scheduling these as part of the ETL process which loads data

from source into the EDW.

Responsibilities:

• Translate project requirements into effective and comprehensive test cases.

• Define clear testing objectives that align with overall project goals.

• Establish the testing scope, prioritizing critical features and functionalities.

• Document expected deliverables, such as detailed test plans, scripts, and

reports.

• Use dbt to build tests that ensures the ETL process is working as intended

• Automate the common manual testing done by the QA through creating macros

in dbt

• Build and monitor automated system health checks

• Collaborate with Enterprise Data Engineers to investigate root cause of issues

and suggest resolutions.

• Orchestrate data testing solutions using airflow

• Be able to support the team in doing releases

• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks, integrating them with CI/CD

pipelines.

• Collaborate effectively with developers to implement testing strategies at lower

levels, facilitating a "shift left" approach and promoting early defect detection.

• Take ownership of application quality from requirements gathering through

development and testing, ensuring a high standard of product excellence

Qualification:

• Strong SQL and data transformation skills

• Experience in programming or scripting languages such as Python, C#, Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Understanding of ETL/ELT process fundamentals

• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable test

automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress

• Experience in testing of data with tools such as PowerBI, DBT and Snowflake

(nice to have)

• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar platforms for automating and

managing test workflows.

Technical Skills:

• You are a proactive advocate for "shifting left", aiming to identify and address

defects earlier in the development lifecycle.

• You are passionate about test automation and committed to continuously

improving testing processes.

• You enjoy collaborating with your team members to build solutions which

improves the data quality within the data warehouse

• You have a drive to automate processes that mainly focuses on ensuring data

quality and process rigidity

• You have experience within data engineering.

• You have experience working with relational databases and investigating root

cause of issues.

• Your SQL and data transformation skills are a key skill of yours

• You have an understanding of database management systems and scripting.