Senior QA Data Engineer - FanDuel, Hybrid & Remote

Senior QA Data Engineer - FanDuel, Hybrid & Remote

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 1

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products all built with one goal in mind — to give fans new and innovative ways to interact with their favorite games, sports, teams, and leagues. That’s no easy task, which is why we’re so dedicated to building a winning team. And make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right

Our roster has an opening with your name on it.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Data Engineer with proven data integration skills to develop and support Integration, ETL, Data Warehouse, as well as data driven services such as personalization or customer profiles offered as APIs and streams to other business units. You will be joining our great team of data engineers in building high-end, high quality applications in large scale low latency data environments (100TB+ in size).

You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment where you will team up with colleagues with experience in Data Warehouse, Machine Learning and more.

The successful candidate should have excellent technical and problem-solving skills, a positive and results driven attitude, a strong communicator who can interact with both technical and non-technical people.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Work as an effective member of a scrum team - driving and contributing to the agile delivery process and taking ownership for your team’s software quality from concept to production.  Own and devise the data test strategy.

• Create and promote the use of behaviour/test-driven development at multiple levels within the software by pairing with production code developers and product owners.       

• Functional Testing of Big Data Integration & Reporting solutions

• E2E testing - from source data stores through to reports, including test data set up.

• Partner with the Product Owner to ensure suitable understanding of requirement and design testing strategies.  

• Review acceptance criteria for the user stories & ensure required test coverage.

• Own defect management lifecycle

• Design & develop repeatable, automated test cases.

• Drive Test Driven Development practices

• Drive Environments best practices

• Own data delivery regression test pack

• To be proactive and drive the building of effective relationships across Data and key areas of the business stakeholder community.

• To ensure risks and issues are identified in a timely manner and effectively communicated with proposed resolution and mitigation strategies to the Technical Program Manager

• Mentor and guide more junior members of the team.

 
Key Working Relationships:

This position involves working with and been part of a cross-skilled engineering team, and will have regular contact with teams looking after other aspects of Paddy Power Betfair products & tools.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

• Background in functional testing with the ability to plan, design and execute test cases.

• Proven diagnostic and debugging skills.

• Understands Data, Data Integration, Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence

• Proven experience of Hands-On testing in the data space

• Understanding of data lineage audits.

• Excellent experience in writing SQL

• Proven experience in ETL/ELT

• Understanding of Data Modelling

• Exposure to Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration tools (e.g., Go, Jenkins)

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrates excellent people skills.

• Demonstrates exceptional communication, interpersonal skills and consistent high energy levels.

 Desirable:

• Experience of Agile software development practices

• Experience of large data warehouse (10 TB+) with multiple sources and outputs

• Knowledge of the online gaming/gambling industry

• Experience in BI Tools

Key Skills & Attributes

• Proactive work ethic with the ability to deliver results and meet challenging deadlines.

• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.

• Self-motivating.

• Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced.

• Proven ability & desire to innovate.

• Strong analytical skills.

• Enthusiasm for the software development process.

• Good English language skills.

What you can expect:

• 25 days of annual leave

• ShareSave scheme and „Flexible Benefits” of your choice

• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments)

• Excellent development opportunities including thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy'

• Working from home options;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment.

If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, in order to consider you for prospective roles within our company.