Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC; Wilson, NC; Richmond, VA

Initial/Primary Project Name(s):

CDIS Production Operations Support

Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)

• CDIS QA Team

Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)

• Preferred.

Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)

• Support CDIS Development lifecycle and QA Team processes by:
• Participate in requirements grooming and sprint planning to ensure clear understanding and traceability of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Interpret user stories and business requirements into actionable validation criteria and data-driven test cases.
• Develop and execute SQL queries to validate business logic, data transformations, and back-end implementation against requirements.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA team to clarify acceptance criteria and resolve requirement ambiguities.
• Perform functional validation and support UAT, ensuring features meet business needs from both a data and UI/UX perspective.
• Identify gaps, defects, or misalignments between implementation and business expectations through data analysis.
• Document findings, test outcomes, and data validation results, providing concise reporting to business and technical stakeholders.
• Support QA team in developing functional test cases and ensuring coverage of key business flows.
• Assist in traceability matrix development, linking user stories to validation and test steps.
• Monitor and communicate progress of data validation and test efforts, escalating issues as needed.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, information systems, computer science or business-related field, six years of experience in a role of data analysis, statistical analysis, data transformation, data reconciliation and/or sophisticated data presentation or equivalent education and related training or experience.
• Experience in ETL Development using standard tools.
• Understanding of Enterprise Data Warehouse concepts and prior experience applying that understanding to query data in a Very Large Database (VLDB) environment.
• Familiarity in using a query analysis tool.
• Knowledge of SQL Queries.
• Experience with SAS.
• Experience with Python.

PlNice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However, candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master s degree and 4+ years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience, testing data analytics solutions using Python and/or MSSQL, including API testing and troubleshooting
• Banking, Financial Services, and/or Cyber Security experience
• Advance knowledge of Java and testing automation frameworks

EEO

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