Data & Analytics Senior Tester (Pontoon)

Data & Analytics Senior Tester

Morson are recruiting for a Data & Analytics Senior Tester to join our client in North Greenwich, London.

For this role you must:

• Define test requirements from accurate analysis of project documentation, test cases and test data according to the scope defined and in accordance with Data & Analytics standards to comply with business requirements.
• Design and automate tests effectively for work items assigned to their scrum agile development team. Lead a test-first development method, in which the tests constructed will be used to prove the correctness of data extraction from sources, transformation and load code for a data warehouse or application, to validate reports and user interfaces built using various visualisation tools.
• Work with Technology & Data Business Analysts to achieve sign off from a variety of business stakeholders that the Data & Analytics solutions have met requirements through comprehensive test results and that the completion of all test activity has been undertaken within scheduled timescales and business expectations.
• Troubleshoot issues found during testing, working closely with peers and Business Analysts across Technology & Data. Resolve and fix such identified issues, or suggest alternative solutions which still meet business requirements.
• Raise defects where necessary and pro-actively track to a timely completion, re-testing fixes to ensure reported problems are corrected. Identify and escalate, where appropriate, critical technical issues to the Development Stream Lead and/or Technical Delivery Manager that may impact on the timeline.
• Develop, actively contribute to, maintain and publish a test strategy which will form the basis of all Data & Analytics test activity over a 1 to 3 year period.
• Contribute to and provide insight into agile process activities such as estimation of tasks, supporting work planning and completed work demonstrations, as well as generating test documentation as needed by the working practices agreed by the team.
• Lead the construction of a complete regression test suite that maximises the use of test automation, and that ultimately fits into an overnight/continuous integration build process. Suggest and execute initiatives to improve the testing process
• To ensure that our clients policy on privacy and data protection is adhered to in the design of all BI solutions. That access to data is controlled, that personal data is stored securely and is anonymised in accordance with best practice guidelines.

You will require the following:

• Detailed working knowledge of software testing with a high SQL or data content; design of unit tests, integration testing, functional and smoke testing, system test and acceptance test.
• Working knowledge of test automation - particularly on automating tests in parallel with iterative incremental product development.
• Working knowledge of ETL/ELT, data warehousing/business intelligence methodologies and best practice including dealing with big data, cloud technology and unstructured data and the relative required approaches to testing.
• Experience of an industry recognised test/software development tracking tool or a bespoke system, project management tools.
• Knowledge of different testing methodologies - eg V model, Waterfall approach and knowledge of development lifecycle.
• Extensive use of and fully conversant in T-SQL (SQL Server) or PL-SQL (Oracle).
• Knowledge of SQL on Microsoft APS desirable.
• Skilled in using automation test tools which includes; Microsoft Test; NUnit; SpecFlow. Selenium; Coded UI test; DBFit; SQL Server test tools in Visual studio and performance monitoring tools.
• Highly skilled user of test/defect management tools such as Visual Studio ALM tools (TFS) or HP ALM.
• Skilled at writing/reading complex queries in a test environment, including C#, PowerShell and/or JavaScript.
• Skilled at solving and communicating problems collaboratively, applying knowledge and technology to the full.

If you are interested and have relevant qualifications and experience, apply now and I will be in touch with you shortly.

Alternatively, contact Connah O'Keeffe at Morson International for more information about this position.