Data QA Engineer

About Trace One

Trace One is a premier SaaS provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and compliance solutions, specializing in the food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, and chemical industries. With over 30 years of expertise, we empower more than 9,000 brand owners worldwide to innovate, collaborate, and bring products to market faster while ensuring the highest standards of quality, compliance, and sustainability. Trusted by industry leaders, Trace One combines cutting-edge technology with unmatched expertise to help businesses navigate complexity, accelerate growth, and shape a sustainable future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within the Data team, supporting functional and automation validation of the Business Intelligence and reporting solutions.
• Development of automated tests, using the appropriate framework.
• Contributing test automation steps to the CI/CD pipeline.
• Carry out manual product validation as needed, to support change delivery and automation. 
• Investing in quality improvement, looking for opportunities to refine the product definition, engineering and run processes, by reducing errors as early in the lifecycle as possible. 
• Coordinate with the Product Manager and team members on a daily basis, actively participating in the SCRUM ceremonies.
• Based on the required product changes, as specified by Product Management, review and translate them into the corresponding quality needs e.g. acceptance criteria review, test case definition (manual and automated), creation and estimation of tasks.
• Carrying out risk-based assessments to determine the right test case candidates for automation.
• Production support, including investigation and validation of production issues and fixes.
• Stay abreast of new methods and technologies, seeking out innovative solutions to address BI testing challenges.
• Encourage all team members to initiate process improvements, aimed at enhancing product 
  quality and improving the users experience of our products.
• Support and mentor new QA team members, enabling them to quick become effective contributors.
• Coach colleagues in process improvement techniques, helping to develop a ‘build in quality‘ mindset across the team.
• Work with the Quality Manager to implement decisions in line with the QA policy and strategy.
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Hierarchy and interactions:

• Reports to Lead Quality Analyst.
• Typically interacts with other teams including: Cloud Operations, Support, Product Management.

Personal Skills:

• Strong motivation/appetite for quality engineering, keeping up to date with technologies and techniques.
• Speed of execution (high quality, on time development).
• Quick to adapt to new concepts and methods.
• Versatility, creativity to identify appropriate technical solutions.
• Adaptability and strength of purpose to meet user requests while respecting quality standards.
• Good communicator, able to participate in both technical and business-related discussions. 
• Coaching / Mentoring of more junior team members.
• Motivator.

Technical skills & qualifications:

• Development environment – SQL Server, Looker, TestSigma or Cypress.
• Azure DevOps.

Experience:

• Solid experience of functional testing.
• Solid experience of Data testing – ETL, SQL, BI tools e.g. Looker, Tableau, Power BI.
• Development of test automation scripts.
• Working in small, highly motivated, distributed teams.
• Working knowledge of the Agile/SCRUM method.

The Trace One group is an equal opportunities employer.

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