Data Tester

Northramp is looking for an ambitious, motivated team player that is willing to support a mission-critical application at a large federal agency. As Quality Assurance (QA) Tester focused on Data Quality, you will be responsible for supporting one team or multiple teams of experienced application developers to validate that business and technical requirements are being thoroughly and accurately incorporated into solution components prior to deployment into production with a specific focus on data underpinning reporting and analytics products. Working in a scaled Scrum format that leverages Agile methodologies and deploys through a DevSecOps pipeline, you will create and manage testing and supporting documentation to be completed at consistent milestones during each delivery sprint. The QA Tester will be responsible for automating testing scripts and coordinate and communicate testing statuses and results with each team’s business analysts, DevOps engineers, developers and scrum masters to ensure testing and delivery quality is met at all times.

As a Northramp QA Tester, you will be responsible for providing high quality deliverables and continuously outstanding support to our clients.

We are currently looking for a QA Tester who will perform the following core responsibilities:

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  End-to-end responsibilities for data quality of analytical and reporting products including acute attention to detail and the ability to spot small errors or inconsistencies in large data sets
• Design test cases and scripts to validate data integrity and identify gaps and potential coding fixes to correct any issues.
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets
• Design and automate testing processes to leveraging familiarity with automation tools and scripting languages to make QA processes more efficient and repeatable
• Ability to look at reports and identify errors and fix coding errors when needed
• Ensure adherence to project team’s testing standards and procedures while contributing to continuously minimize testing defects and improve process efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Design and develop complete automated test coverage of the application.
• Perform application testing using existing testing tools and manual testing while adhering to sprint and release deadlines and milestones.
• Contribute to software development by testing and validating specifications are met in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Review and analyze complex programming specifications to properly and effectively test each application requirement.
• Conduct thorough defect analysis, document findings, and steps to reproduce.
• Effectively communicate testing results to business and project team stakeholders.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis with developers and surfacing steps to recreate issues.

Additionally, the ideal candidate will possess the following attributes:

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  Advanced fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Project, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.).
• Proactive participation in peer and design reviews.
• Demonstrate how to provide production support and suggesting enhancements to existing business applications.
• Multi-task across varying responsibilities and priorities, and communicate status regularly to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with other QA testing resources to refine and enhance testing processes to improve overall quality pertaining to testing results and solution alignment to business needs.
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to work on multiple activities simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Required Qualifications:

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  4+ years professional experience in a consulting setting
• 2+ years of conducting QA Testing responsibilities or similar job experience.
• Strong analytical skills including an understanding of complex data structure to identifying patterns, and troubleshooting data discrepancies.
• Ability to work well independently and within team settings, requiring minimal direction/oversight from team leaders.
• Experience working with Jenkins, TestNG, JMeter, or DataDog.
• Proficiency in SQL for querying databases and performing data validation checks and a strong understanding of database structures is also beneficial.
• Fundamental knowledge and experience in working with Java.
• Understanding Object-Oriented Programming and how it relates to software testing.
• Strong written and verbal interpersonal and communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile (or Scaled-Agile) methodologies and best practices, including release trains, DevOps, CI/CD pipeline management, and security requirements.

Desired Qualifications:

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  Familiarity with Google Cloud environment.
• Familiarity with the Insurance industry including risk calculations and methodologies used for actuarial science
• Understand code deployment into established continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline, and familiarity with DevOps principles and underlying testing environment.
• Fundamental knowledge of how testing would differ in each step of the deployment process.
• Is familiar with approaches and methodologies related to customer and user experience for digital solutions.
• Experience working with Atlassian suite of project management tools (JIRA, Insight, Confluence).

Clearance

Active Public Trust clearance required. Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

About Northramp

At Northramp, our passion, our true north, is to help our clients cut through the fog and obtain technical and operational clarity to help them make the most significant impact possible. Focused like a laser on driving value for our clients, Northramp specializes in helping public and private sector clients streamline their IT operations, improve their technical services, and drive greater returns from IT investments.

If you are curious in learning more about Northramp, please visit our website at https://www.northramp.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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