Data Tester Job in Osbindia Private Ltd

This role is primarily technically focused and requires development skills to perform testing work. You will need good enough coding skills to be able to interrogate a database and trace the logic back through layers of objects. Candidates need to have a background in testing within data projects, e.g. Data Warehousing, ETL, Migrations.

Most of the interactions will be with fellow technical colleagues such as developers, testers and DBAs and data architects as well as allied professionals such as business analysts and project managers.

Core Responsibilities

Defining the Test Plan and Test Cases with Developers and Data Architects during the design phase

Writing T-SQL Tests to support development activity

Working closely with the technical leads to co-ordinate testing for planned releases

Contributing to the Test Completion Report for each release

Liaising with the Data Quality team when a defect cannot be resolved by the project team

Maintain the company s compliance standards and ensure timely completion of all mandatory on-line training modules and attestations

Qualifications/Certifications

Educated to degree level in an IT related subject with significant a data element

ISTQB Certified Tester is desirable but not essential

Any MS SQL Server certification is a benefit but not essential

GCSE/GCE qualifications in both maths and English or equivalents are essential

Experience Details

3 years of experience of testing with hands-on experience in data projects such as data warehousing, ETL and data migrations. Application testing is not applicable to this role it is purely backend data testing

Previous experience working with an Agile project team is desirable

Knowledge Requirements

A good standard of T-SQL is essential.

Given sufficient time, the ability to understand a database schema so that you know how to query it.

Knowledge of SQL Server as a database environment such that the candidate knows how to use SQL Server Management Studio. Oracle and its eco-system is an acceptable proxy but you would be expected to get up to speed with SQL Server rapidly.

Knowledge of core Database concepts such as tables, views, procedures, joins, keys.