ETL Test Lead

Quest Oracle Community; Sydney; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an ETL Test Lead to drive end-to-end DW testing for an insurance program in Australia. You will lead testing across ETL, data migration, and BI reporting using Azure Synapse and related tools, coordinating with offshore teams and business stakeholders.

You should have hands-on ETL/DWH experience, strong SQL skills, and a solid grasp of Agile processes. The role involves defining test strategies, creating test plans, and ensuring quality across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in ETL and Data Warehouse testing in cloud environments.
• Expertise with Synapse and pipeline log analysis.
• Proficient in SQL, Unix, Oracle and data modelling.
• Familiar with Agile and Jira/Confluence tooling.
• Knowledge of insurance data migration projects (Guidewire/Evolve).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end DW testing for large programs.
• Develop test strategies, plans and scenarios with stakeholders.
• Create and maintain test data and traceability matrices.
• Coordinate offshore teams and defect triage in JIRA.
• Design and implement data warehouse QA automation framework.
• Publish daily status reports and defect metrics.

Skills

ETL Testing

Data Warehouse

Azure Synapse

SQL & DB2

Agile Testing

Education

Tricentis Data Integrity Certificate

Azure Fundamentals AZ-900

Azure Data Fundamentals DP-900

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Oracle SQL Fundamentals

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Jenkins

GIT

SQL Server

Apache Spark

Hive

MongoDB

Python

Job description

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and a unique place international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU - people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

Position Summary:

Cognizant is seeking a ETL Test Lead to work with Functional, Integration and E2E business process testing for an insurance account in Australia. This role is for an ETL Test lead who can work individually on the Azure migration project from Guidewire/DB2 and EVOLVE sources to Power BI reports and can handle offshore team. Should have hands on experience and strong knowledge on ETL/DWH concepts with Azure cloud knowledge. Should be having hands on experience on Azure Synapse, Synapse Pipeline, Db2, SQL server experience. Should be able to create scenarios and Defect tracking in JIRA and able to manage offshore team.

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong experience of ETL and Datawarehouse Testing using AWS/Azure Cloud services
• Synapse pipeline logs analysis and debug
• SQL, Unix, VB Scripting, Oracle, Snowflake, Redshift
• Technical skills on SQL query, data modelling and data pipeline is essential for this role
• Understanding complex business problems/requirements to develop test cases
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Hands on use of the Atlassian toolset of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins and GIT
• Big Data Stack (Apache Spark, Hive, Hbase)
• MongoDB, Python
• Insurance Domain Knowledge
• Data migration projects with Insurance COTS products like Guidewire and Evolve

Roles And Responsibilities:

• Responsible to perform E2E Datawarehouse testing for large program
• Responsibility includes Business Requirement gathering & Design walkthrough sessions and Understanding the Functional Specification documents and raising of clarifications
• Defining the Scope based on the Functional and Technical Documents
• Performing gaps analysis by comparing technical documents with Business Requirements and ensuring whether all functional requirements are implemented in technical document
• Liaison with BSA to understand the requirements
• Prepare test strategy
• Provide Detailed Test Plan & Test strategy and Preparing Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts & Data Guidelines based on the Functional Specification documents and tools across multiple portfolios to reduce the cost of quality and contribute towards organizational testing policy
• Identify testable scenarios (test scenario document)
• Create / update the Requirements traceability matrix with test scenarios
• Identify test cases for automation and seek sign off from customer
• Create test cases based on the understanding of the requirements
• Create/Modify the SQL test scripts as per the ETL mapping documents and technical specifications & Requirements
• Run the jobs and perform smoke testing
• Execute automation test scripts/manual test cases
• Record and maintain testing evidence and track execution status of assigned test cases
• Responsible for Data Mock up when any of the business scenarios not met and make sure that Data migrating from the source to target is in line with the logic specified
• Identify defects and log failures
• Track defects (defect log as generated from the QC tool/JIRA Tool) to closure
• Participate in the defect triages to gather evidence for defect identification on periodic basis for defect prioritization and fix
• Retest the defect and update the status
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for Critical Defects and handled Defect Calls
• Reporting the Bugs using Defect Tracking Tool and making sure all defects are closed and Publishing Daily Status and Defect Metrics to the client
• Responsible in Preparation of Dashboard, weekly status report and Test Summary Report
• Designing and implementing test automation framework for data warehouse quality assurance
• Internal review and share for stakeholder review and feedback
• Collaborate closely with BA & development team

Qualifications/Certifications:

• Tricentis Data Integrity Product Consultant Certificate (Must have)
• Azure Fundamentals Certificate (AZ-900) (Must have)
• Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) (Must have)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) (Must have)
• Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I (Optional)

Salary Range:

>$100,000

Date of Posting:

20-Oct-26

For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers . Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.