Manager, Quality Assurance (Data Products), Noida

Department: (Exposure Source) Data Assets, COE (Experience in Data Products & Content QA is mandatory for this role)

Objective of the Role: Leads a team of quality analysts who are responsible for product data quality generated from partner data sources and internal data production.

Key Accountabilities & Deliverables:

- Lead the QA team through all aspects of data quality management and coach as needed by building test strategy, test cases and processes.

- Works with data production leads, software leads and developers to anticipate, identify and communicate product quality issues and takes corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve commitments.

- Work closely with the project, development and product managers to ensure that QA resources are allocated appropriately across the agile development teams and meeting commitments.

- Own and manage the Data Management issue tracking in JIRA and establish other processes to ensure traceability and operational efficiency.

- Work with organizational peers within the application development and data development teams to ensure that the enterprise QA/Test environments are updated and available to support all cross-organizational programs and initiatives.

Experience Required:

- Bachelors/ Master’s degree in computer science or related engineering discipline.

- Knowledge of geospatial data or experience in insurance industry.

- Knowledge of upcoming database technologies such as No SQL databases.

- Knowledge of programing languages.

- Minimum of 10 years of quality assurance experience, to include a minimum of 3 years in a managerial role managing product quality.

- 4-5 years of hands on experience in SQL and database languages to guide the team and support testing of data products.

- 3-4 years of hands on experience in ETL tools.

- 2-3 years working with quality process tools to advance automation and reporting of key quality performance metrics and tracking.

- Strong analytical skills and experience with implementation and administration of Software or Data Quality Assurance metrics, such as defect profiles, performance to entry/exit criteria.

- Excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication and project management skills a must.

- Strong leadership skills that inspire team confidence and respect while motivating team members in a creative and effective manner.

- Must be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication

RMS:

Did you know there’s a 5% chance that a hurricane will cause $60 billion of insured losses next year? And there’s a 1% chance that an earthquake will cause $50 billion of insured loss in the next 12 months? We do. At RMS, we build the simulation models that allow insurers and investors to understand portfolio risks due to catastrophes: natural catastrophes (hurricane, earthquake, flood), terrorism, pandemic, and changes in life expectancy.

We are one of the most exciting and technologically sophisticated firms you’ve ‘never’ heard of, unless you’re one of our hundreds of clients in the (re)insurance, banking or hedge fund sector. We lead an industry we helped pioneer and ultimately our work makes a true impact on the world at large. How we understand and manage risk affects everybody and our passion is nothing less than creating a more resilient world through a better understanding of catastrophic events.

As we approach our 25th anniversary, we are now evolving our vision by delivering future solutions in the cloud, releasing in 2014 a cutting edge risk management platform ‘RMS(one)’ for the global risk market. RMS(one) will create a holistic and integrated view across the enterprise with one platform for all models, all points of view, all data. All will be run as equal partners on RMS(one).

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