Area(s) of responsibility
irlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company's consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group's 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Test strategy and planning: Design and develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases for ETL workflows and data pipelines.
- Team leadership: Lead and mentor the ETL testing team, allocating tasks, and providing technical guidance.
- Collaboration: Work closely with business analysts, data engineers, and developers to understand requirements and resolve issues.
- Quality Metrices: Monitor and analyse data quality metrics, identifying and resolving data issues.
- Data validation: Perform data validation, reconciliation, and verification between source and target systems using SQL and other tools to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
- Test execution: Oversee the execution of test cases and automation scripts.
- Defect management: Identify, document, and track defects, working with developers to ensure timely resolution.
- Reporting: Monitor and report on testing progress, quality metrics, and defect summaries to stakeholders.
- Documentation: Create and maintain documentation for test plans, results, and process maps.
Required Skills And Qualifications
- Experience: 7+ years of experience in IT, and 4+ years of experience as Test Lead with a focus on ETL and Data Analytics testing and a proven ability to lead a team.
- Technical skills:
- Strong proficiency in SQL for data validation and analysis.
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT processes.
- Experience with ETL and Data Analytics tools (e.g., Azure notebook, Data Bricks, Power BI).
- Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., ADO).
- Good Database and Data Warehousing testing knowledge.
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Python, PySpark).
- Experience managing a team of QA Engineers
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and best practices
- Strong knowledge of software quality assurance best practices & methodologies
- Soft skills:
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong leadership and problem-solving abilities.
