WESTPOLE Belgium - Technical Expert

工作内容

We are looking to reinforce the Data Delivery team with a technical expert with experience in Business Intelligence focusing on quality assurance end to end.

Job description

Plan, create, and execute quality assurance and testing activities for the Data Warehouse

Create, plan, and execute indicators and tests of data pipelines / ETL processes

Define, review and validate data quality/accuracy alongside their respective KPIs

Develop, execute, document, and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test suites and test cases

Support testing efforts as a part of Agile/Scrum teams · Provide the list and estimates associated with quality assurance/testing activities and tasks

Collaborate with the business and support development teams to troubleshoot, solve defects, and other related issues

Partner with Solution Analysts and Project Managers to ensure requirements are documented, understood, testable, accurately tested and meet the expected level of quality - be participant to the DOR (definition of ready) and DoD (definition of done)

Track and report on test status using established QA metrics and KPIs for assigned projects; create new ones were required

Provide input on go / no-go decisions for production releases

Collaborate with the project teams to develop, implement and improve innovative QA capabilities, approaches and services

Participate in designing, developing and maintaining data quality assurance framework

Requirements

5 years of proven QA/Test Experience in for IT Initiatives

5 years’ of proven experience in Data Warehouse Testing

5 years of proven experience in testing analytical processes

Experience working within an Agile/Scrum Methodology Framework

Proficient at independently writing complex SQL queries

Fundamental knowledge of Data Warehouse concepts

Experience reviewing Business Requirement Document (BRD) / User Stories for accuracy and completeness

Experience in Manual and Automated Testing in Data Warehouse environments

Extensive experience in ETL/ Data Warehouse backend testing and BI Intelligence reports testing

Expert knowledge in creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Strategies, Defect Management to ensure Quality Assurance and to test all the business requirements

Experience in Business Intelligence testing with various reporting tools using Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Dashboards (Xcelsius), QlikView and QlikSense

Experience in using Automation Tool: Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Quality Center (QC) in Client/Server.

Experience with Used Agile Test Methods to provide rapid feedback to the developers significantly helping them uncover important risks

Experience with Unit Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Requirement Testing

Experience executing and coordinating integration, system, regression and user acceptance testing

Demonstrated ability to work on multiple concurrent projects, activities or tasks under time constraints

Experience with SAP BODS (Business Objects Data Services), SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Intelligence is a plus

Experience with Informatica Data Validation and/or Informatica Power Center or similar tools is a plus

Experience with Xray for Jira or HPQC is a plus

A valid certification in a recognized quality assurance standard is required (i.e. ISTQB), certification in data and analytics testing is considered a big plus (i.e. DAU-CDAT)

Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills

Excellent verbal communication skills and ability to participate in multilingual meetings in English and to understand, speak, and write in English (C1 level), French is considered a plus;

Ability to manage stakeholders and run stakeholder meetings;

Good presentation skills;

Documentation and writing skills;

Ease of communication;

Rapid self-starting capability;

Ability to work in a team, integrate and work in an international/multi-cultural environment, on variable-sized projects;

Ability to work with a high degree of rigor and method and, more specifically, to follow standards such as naming conventions;

Meticulous and quality-oriented in work;

Ability to write technical documentation and specifications in English and optionally in French.

The tools used are the following ones

The technical environment is based on Oracle 12C;

SAP Business Objects Enterprise suite;

Qlik products family (v 12);

Toad or SQL Developer as development utility for Oracle database editor;

Microsoft Edge, Chrome or Firefox as Web browsers;

Office 2016 & M365 environment;

Jira with Big Picture and Tempo work management;

Jive, Confluence, Microsoft Teams as collaboration Wiki to collaborate and share knowledge efficiently;

Visio, Axure, Balsamiq, ARIS BPM and others for process modelling and requirements gathering