MAPS Business Intelligence (BI) is a core group that provides business intelligence and reporting solutions to all business units. This crucial service drives all business decisions and business planning.
The BI STE, under the leadership of the BI Lead STE located in Beijing, will work closely with the Seattle BI QA, and have limited interaction with Development and Program Management teams.
This position will analyze transactional data and analytical data and compare business rules to discover holes and troubleshoot data integrity, and also dig deeply into report integrity problems. Other job functions include in-depth analysis of use cases, corresponding creation, maintenance, execution and review of test cases, isolate and reproduce bugs and Root Cause Analysis.
Technical environment is Unix, Teradata and related tools.
This is a great opportunity for a smart, detailed person to go behind the scenes of an industry leader and work hands-on with the engine that drives today’s business.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Minimum:
• Ability to write SQL queries to support data flow investigations.
• Knowledge of relational databases. Understanding of the crucial role of data integrity in relational databases and commitment to their quality.
• Understanding of software development life cycle, quality assurance process, software test design strategy.
• Working knowledge of Unix and shell scripting.
• Motivated and eager to acquire new skills; Self learner;
• Solid oral and written communication skills in English, able to read and discuss the business rules.
• Capacity to work under pressure in small highly focused team.
• Ability to work independently and raise issues by priority and without waiting.
Preferred:
• Experience with Microstrategy or equivalent.
• Experience in Teradata and / or Oracle databases.
• Knowledge of data warehousing.
Education, Certification, and/or Training:
Minimum:
BS in technical field, or lower degree + applicable experience (or equivalent experience with databases)
Preferred:
MS in technical field (or longer experience with databases).
Experience:
Minimum:
• 2 years of software quality assurance or database development experience.
• 1 year of experience with relational databases.
• Experience with stored procedures or equivalent.
Preferred:
• 1 year of Report testing or data validation experience.
• 1 year experience with Data Warehouse.
• 1 year in QA of back-end systems or business analysis.
