Data Analyst/QA Engineer at Simple Technology Solutions

RemoteFull-timeRemoteITPosted about 15 hours ago

About the Role

<div class="content-intro">At Simple Technology Solutions, our people are our priority. We know our team members are more than employees—they’re parents, friends, volunteers, artists, and athletes. That’s why we offer flexibility to help them thrive personally and professionally while delivering exceptional solutions to our Federal Government clients. Our culture is built on collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence. We are mentors and thought leaders who share knowledge and foster growth. Recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” we believe a range of perspectives helps us drive innovation and exceed customer expectations. At STS, taking care of our people isn’t a perk—it’s the standard. As a HUBZone company, we also offer special incentives for team members living in qualified HUBZones. Check out the HUBZone map <a href="https://maps.certify.sba.gov/hubzone/map#center=39.828200,-98.579500&zoom=5">HERE</a> to see if you qualify!</div>Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Data Analyst/QA Engineer to add to our team. Quick Position Overview: <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">US Citizenship is required</li> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bachelor's Degree is required</li> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">minimum of 3-5 years' position related experience is required</li> </ul> <span data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"272499da-5523-5969-b17c-4f82c0ce3910|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"Default",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"Default",335572020,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",469769226,"Times New Roman",335551500,"0",201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777843,"ＭＳ明朝",201341986,"1",268442635,"24"]}">The Role:  STS is looking for a Data Analyst / QA Engineer to join a federal data engineering team. You will play a critical quality gate role on a federal data platform, ensuring data accuracy and software quality across a high-stakes environment where data integrity directly supports government operations. You will directly support the agency's Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) process and serve as the critical checkpoint between build and production deployment. Meticulous attention to data accuracy and strong SQL skills are prerequisites for this position.  This position is contingent upon contract award.  The Data Analyst / QA Engineer at STS will:  <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Design, develop, and maintain automated data quality checks using AWS Glue data quality tools (including Deequ) to validate completeness, accuracy, record counts, field-level integrity, and domain conformance for all datasets ingested into the platform </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Perform schema validation for applicable filings prior to ingestion; manage data load exceptions with written approval from Data Stewards; implement custom data quality checks as defined by Data Officers and Data Stewards at the dataset level </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Monitor production ETL pipelines and ensure ETL Load Reports are populated in real-time and ETL Gap Reports are updated on a weekly basis covering all gaps from the inception of the initial ingest process; ensure zero data loss and complete data transfers </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Create, maintain, and execute test cases and automated tests that verify all user-facing platform functionality; build unit and integration tests; ensure all new code achieves the minimum 90% test coverage threshold </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Conduct static code analysis and dependency analysis to identify bugs, vulnerabilities, and data quality risks early in the development lifecycle; run security scans at least once per sprint as part of the Definition of Done </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1">Support the agency's IV&V process: prepare IV&V Questionnaires, coordinate test submissions, and ensure all findings are fully addressed and resubmitted within required timelines </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1">Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination; track and report on IV&V and UAT iteration counts per reporting period </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1">Validate that ETL metadata, data models, data dictionaries, and all required documentation are complete, accurate, and available in the agency data catalog prior to deployment </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1">Support ad hoc data requests by developing and validating optimized queries, materialized views, or reports </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1">Maintain the team's performance metrics dashboard including velocity, sprint burn-down/burn-up, code coverage, and backlog traceability in real-time </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="11" data-aria-level="1">Collaborate with Data Officers, Data Stewards, and the IV&V team to resolve data quality findings across the platform dataset portfolio </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="12" data-aria-level="1">Participate in 2-week sprint ceremonies, quarterly PI planning, backlog refinement, and agile delivery using JIRA and GitHub </li> </ul>   Education and Experience:    Required    <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="13" data-aria-level="1">Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="14" data-aria-level="1">3-5 years of experience in data quality engineering, QA engineering, or data analytics in a technical data-intensive environment </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="15" data-aria-level="1">Proficiency in SQL for data validation, gap analysis, record count reconciliation, and ad hoc query development </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="16" data-aria-level="1">Experience with Python for test scripting and data analysis </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="17" data-aria-level="1">Experience with AWS Glue data quality tools or equivalent frameworks (Deequ, Great Expectations) </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="18" data-aria-level="1">Hands-on experience with CI/CD-integrated automated testing frameworks; ability to build unit and integration tests achieving 90% code coverage </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="19" data-aria-level="1">Experience supporting IV&V, UAT, or formal government acceptance testing processes; direct federal program experience is strongly preferred </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="20" data-aria-level="1">Familiarity with schema validation for XML datasets </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="21" data-aria-level="1">Experience with Trino, Athena, or equivalent query engines for validation against large-scale data lake tables </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="22" data-aria-level="1">Ability to produce complete test documentation including test plans, test cases, test results, and IV&V Questionnaires </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="23" data-aria-level="1">Familiarity with FISMA, NIST 800-53, OWASP ASVS Level 2, and federal secure software development standards </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="24" data-aria-level="1">Experience with large-scale financial or regulatory datasets is a strong plus </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="25" data-aria-level="1">Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility compliance standards is a plus </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="26" data-aria-level="1">Must be able to work 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of home location </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="27" data-aria-level="1">Active federal public trust suitability determination or ability to obtain one required </li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><div>STS is committed to equal employment opportunity and merit-based employment practices. 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