Technical Lead-Testing Services

Area(s) of responsibility

Test Lead

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.
  • Analytical and detail-oriented mindset.