PowerBI QA Engineer II

Are you looking to make an impactful difference in your work, yourself, and your community? Why settle for just a job when you can land a career? At ICW Group, we are hiring team members who are ready to use their skills, curiosity, and drive to be part of our  journey as we strive to transform the insurance  carrier space. We're proud to be in business for over 50 years, and its change agents like yourself that will help us continue to deliver our mission to create the best insurance experience possible.

Headquartered in San Diego with regional offices located throughout the United States, ICW Group has been named for ten consecutive years as a Top 50 performing P&C organization offering the stability of a large, profitable and growing company combined with a focus on all things people. It's our team members who make us an employer of choice and the vibrant company we are today. We strive to make both our  internal and external communities better everyday! Learn more about why you want to be here!

PURPOSE OF JOB

The purpose of this job is to apply the principles and practices of quality assurance throughout BI process to ensure design quality, making sure that the dashboards and reports adhere to standards for testing all software products built in-house or configured on the cloud.  The position exists to collaborate within the team and partners with internal stakeholders to plan, test, and implement all BI products to ensure products conform to the desired quality standard.  Accountable for defects and ensuring systems are operational and “client ready,” additionally develop, maintain and execute automated scripts.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Completes moderate to high complexity initiatives within one or more development environments.

• Works with team to review functional and non-functional requirements, and specification and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Estimates, prioritizes, plans, and coordinates test activities.
• Identifies, records, thoroughly documents, and track bugs.
• Works closely with business users, business analysts, and developers to understand features and create robust comprehensive test plans to verify functionality.
• Tracks quality assurance metrics including reporting on pre-defined KPI, defect densities, and open defects counts.
• Conducts exploratory testing and acceptance of new features as part of a story-driven Agile development process.
• Executes and maintains automated regression test suites using open-source tools.
• Follows standards in accordance with company policy and regulation (MAR, HIPAA, ISO 2700, ISO 27001, etc.). 

Develops detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

• Develops and applies testing processes to new and existing dashboards to meet stakeholders’ needs.
• Develops testing strategy and user acceptance testing test plans.
• Defines and develops automated solutions to expedite testing to address unit testing, regression testing, negative testing, and bug retests
• Participates in setting up, configuring, and maintaining automated testing environments in a continuous integration setting.
• Participates throughout the design and development process, analyzing features to point out weaknesses or inconsistencies. 

Serves as subject matter expert for a single business area or technical product.

• Coaches one or more junior team members.
• Delivers quality process training to technical staff.
• Acts as an internal quality consultant to advise or influence business or technical partners.
• Partners with distributed teams, outside vendors, or offshore testing partners.
• Maintains automated test harnesses and libraries.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This role does not have direct reports but may mentor and/or train less experienced team members.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university IN Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience.  Minimum 4 years of related experience.  Minimum 5 years of IT and/or relevant business experience.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

BI Tool Testing Experience such as Power BI or Tableau. Knowledge of ETL pipelines and Data Warehousing. Proficiency in Java. Understanding and Knowledge of Data Governance concepts. Proficiency in SQL.

Works in an agile manner and must be flexible to changing priorities. Must have ability to learn, analyze, and interpret technical documentation such as software requirements, detailed designs, flow charts and database schemas. Must have a customer-service mentality to resolve/avoid conflict and enable a team approach. Ability to speak in front of teams, stakeholders, and management. Understanding of the software development life cycle processes; understanding of different testing methodologies and their proper application. Experience in analyzing requirements to reduce ambiguity and increase testability; experience developing and reviewing test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Ability to anticipate user behavior or risks to systems; ability to work independently; experience querying and using data to enhance testing approach/scope. Automation feasibility definition and hands-on execution experience; ability to train others on automation practices and tools. Experience mentoring junior QA team members. Knowledge of Insurance Industry best practices and business workflows a plus, and Industry standard certification in Quality Assurance is strongly desired. Strong experience with SQL and SQL and database schema designs and experience with building automation frameworks is a must. Ability to validate data transformations and perform End-to-End validations for ETL/ API enabled integrated systems. Work effectively in both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall (for specific external vendor-led efforts) frameworks.  Ability to work effectively with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams. Ability to quickly understand and gain domain expertise with complex existing applications and architecture.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Occasionally the work environment may be loud.

WORK ENVIRONMENT  

This position operates in an office environment and requires the frequent use of computer, telephone, copier and other standard office equipment. 

We are currently not offering employment sponsorship for this opportunity.

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The current range for this position is

This range is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses.  If hired at ICW Group, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors unique to each candidate, including experience, education and the location of the role and considers employees performing substantially similar work.

WHY JOIN ICW GROUP?
•    Challenging work and the ability to make a difference
•    You will have a voice and feel a sense of belonging
•    We offer a competitive benefits package, with generous medical, dental, and vision plans as well as 401K retirement plans and company match
•    Bonus potential for all positions
•    Paid Time Off with an accrual rate of 5.23 hours per pay period (equal to 17 days per year)
•    11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
•    Want to continue learning? We’ll support you 100%

ICW Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. ICW Group will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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