Data QA Associate

**About Fusemachines**

Fusemachines is a leading AI strategy, talent, and education services provider. Founded by Sameer Maskey Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University, Fusemachines has a core mission of democratizing AI. With a presence in 4 countries (Nepal, United States, Canada, and Dominican Republic and more than 350 full-time employees). Fusemachines seeks to bring its global expertise in AI to transform companies around the world.

**About the role**

This is a remote, full-time consulting (contract) role, with a possibility of extension, with working hours aligning with US Eastern time.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and execute comprehensive test cases and scenarios to validate the accuracy and integrity of data stored in our warehouse.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data analysts, and software developers, to understand data requirements and validate data transformation processes.
- Identify, document, and track data quality issues, and work with the relevant teams to investigate and resolve them.
- Perform root cause analysis of data discrepancies and propose solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Participate in the design and implementation of automated testing frameworks and tools to streamline the QA process.
- Monitor the impact of changes to the ETL or BI tools, ensuring that they do not introduce data integrity issues or downstream problems.
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices in data quality assurance and contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes within the team.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and maintain data quality standards, guidelines, and metrics.
- Provide guidance and support to team members on data quality-related matters.
- Experience using test management and defect tracking platforms such as TestRail and JIRA.
- Familiarity with Version Control tools such as Git
- Find and report bugs and defects into a bug reporting/tracking platform such as Jira following proper standards
- Participate in standup meetings and other team meetings such as test planning and update meetings
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, updating Data Quality processes to enhance efficiency
- Participate across all phases of the software development life cycle for the assigned project/module
- Willingness to learn and collaborate with the team members to implement automated testing

**Qualifications**:

- Proven experience working as a QA Associate or similar role, preferably within a data-driven environment.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and the ability to write complex queries and test cases.
- Solid understanding of data quality principles and best practices.
- Experience with ETL processes and data integration.
- Familiarity with Looker
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
- Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks is a plus.
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, R) and statistical concepts is a plus
- Bachelor in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in Data Quality Assurance
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
- Experience working with agile/scrum methodologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for testing

Primarily, the QA associate will test our recent builds before we deploy them to higher environments. Anudit used to do this for us and did extremely well.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status._

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