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 sc