Test Engineer (Data Products)
Analytica
- Bethesda, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Regularly interface with clients at numerous levels of an organization—project managers, stakeholders, end-users, data owners, analysts, IT groups, management, and executives—to drive the delivery of data management and governance products
- Develop and execute test plans covering configuration, integration, regression, performance, smoke, and UAT scenarios.
- Validate end-to-end workflows across data pipelines, APIs, catalog integrations, and governance tools to ensure seamless functionality.
- Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and ensure requirements are testable.
- Automate repetitive test cases where feasible to accelerate regression and performance testing cycles.
- Document test results, track defects, and work closely with engineering to drive resolution and retesting.
- Bachelor’s degree in relative field
- 4+ years of experience in software/data testing with strong exposure to configuration and system integration testing.
- Experience with data platforms, pipelines, and catalog/governance solutions (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Snowflake, Databricks).
- Hands-on experience with functional, performance, smoke, and UAT testing practices; familiarity with automation frameworks is a plus.
- Strong understanding of data validation, metadata, and end-to-end workflow testing across distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills; able to work across technical and business teams to clarify requirements and validate solutions.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance