A Federal Government Agency is seeking an experienced Senior Test Analyst be responsible for the design, development and delivery of data testing activities across several data movement and transformation processes within the Agency.

Key duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Testing various Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes on the department’s Azure data and analytics platform.
• Utilising expert level knowledge of best testing practices to uplift capability maturity.
• Developing test templates and artefacts for use in project documentation and reporting.
• Ensuring adequate test coverage including exploratory testing.
• Conducting defect management, including defect tracking, issue resolution, and signoffs.
• Creating and presenting test reports to stakeholders.
• Be responsive, flexible, and work collaboratively as part of an agile team.
• Create and maintain test frameworks and strategies.
• Sharing outcomes, knowledge and experience with other test analysts in the section.
• Act as technical escalation point.
• Provide technical support in the development of test deliverables.
• Assisting project teams towards achieving testing objectives that align with departmental, divisional, and sectional priorities, employing both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Strong relationship building, communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Training and mentoring junior testers through regular quality reviews and constructive feedback on industry best practices.

Technical skills

• A minimum of 5 years’ work experience as a data test engineer (such as data warehouse tester or ETL/ELT tester or Business Intelligence tester).
• Strong working experience with large and/or complex relational databases.
• Strong proficiency with SQL scripting to validate source/target data loads and transformations.
• Very good understanding of business intelligence concepts and relational data models in areas such as ETL/ELT processing, data warehouses, dashboards and analytics.

 NOTE:  Applicant must be an Australian Citizen with ability to obtain Baseline Security Clearance

If you have the right skills and experience please apply now through the job board quoting JL631427.

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