Title:  Technical Specialist-Testing Services

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:
o    Strong proficiency in SQL for data validation and analysis.
o    Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT processes. 
o    Experience with ETL and Data Analytics tools (e.g., Azure notebook, Data Bricks, Power BI).
o    Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., ADO).
o    Good Database and Data Warehousing testing knowledge.
o    Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Python, PySpark).
o    Experience managing a team of QA Engineers
o    Understanding of software development lifecycle and best practices 
o    Strong knowledge of software quality assurance best practices & methodologies

•    Soft skills:
o    Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
o    Strong leadership and problem-solving abilities.