Senior Data QA Engineer - Remote

SquareTrade is the fastest growing company of its kind. We’re revolutionizing a $30b industry with service innovation and attention to customer satisfaction. We partner with some of the largest, most sophisticated retailers and carriers in the world (Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco, and T-Mobile to name a few), consistently win industry awards, have received tens of thousands of 5-star reviews… and we’re just getting started. A member of the Allstate family, SquareTrade has headquarters in San Francisco and London.

Job Description

Data Platform Engineering is looking for a hands-on Data/ETL QA Engineer with significant experience testing analytics (esp. predictive), reporting and visualization, data science pipelines, statistical models, in/on Salesforce, Tableau, PowerBI, and custom apps based on the Front-End/Back-End Apps and Salesforce ecosystem. In addition, this candidate will be hands on testing data analytics and reporting applications and will need strong SQL, ETL, Reporting, and Data testing skills and must be very familiar with the data and Salesforce Ecosystems. The candidate is expected to be able to visualize complex, high volume of data movement across multiple systems, getting enriched/transformed as it moves and must be able to design and execute tests for each step of this end-to-end transformation.

Employees can work remotely

Responsibilities Include:

• Translate business and technical requirements to test requirements using test design patterns in an agile and nimble fashion, working closely with the business analysts, Dev and product mgmt. teams
• Prepare and maintain a test plan, test scripts and test data and demonstrate the business condition under test and the expected results
• Investigate application issues, suggesting workarounds and assist in analyzing root cause to identify defects.
• Ensure defects can be re-produced and document in sufficient detail for the developers to locate and amend the incorrect code
• Identify, define and assess defined issues/problems within own area of responsibility, referring options for solutions to line management as appropriate
• Execute manual regression tests to ensure existing functionality remains working as designed prior to each Salesforce release
• Log defects in defect tracking tool, collaborate with Salesforce developers to resolve defects, retest failed test scenarios, and close defects once remediated
• Review test results with Product Owner and feature Solutions Architect and report and communicate testing progress to the Test Manager, business owners and their proxies
• Work with team to maintain traceability matrices correlating requirements and design artifacts to test cases
• Understand the role of testing within the software development lifecycle and business-related project constraints, and effectively advocate for the best possible customer experience of product quality within those parameters
• Participates in agile team ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) planning, Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos and retrospectives
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of Informatica technologies and Salesforce CRM (Sales and Service Cloud) testing experience.
• Experience working as a member of an agile delivery (Scrum or SAFe) team.
• Experience in testing, and defects management.
• Significant experience writing SQL queries to assist in validating test results.
• Strong technical problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Thorough knowledge of structured test methods and processes
• Nice to have Knowledge of how to test Informatica Cloud infrastructure and data residing in the Informatica infrastructure, and from a Salesforce perspective - triggers, workflows, validations, SF objects, SOQL, SOSL, SAQL
• Using a data-driven approach, create functional and automated tests to test custom code, config/declarative approach, SOQL, backend services/APIs and the User Interface
• Experience with manual web services and REST/SOAP API testing (esp. REST)
• Has built Test Data and can create test data using stubs/drivers to validate functionality on the GUI for which real test data is not yet available