QA Engineer II - Data Discovery and Test

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading live entertainment company is seeking a Data QA Engineer to enhance its Core Data Services team. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in data testing and automation, with expertise in Python and SQL. This remote position focuses on ensuring quality standards within the data engineering lifecycle, supporting diverse data sources and cloud services. Join a passionate team dedicated to creativity and inclusivity, where your input will directly impact data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing automation tests for data platforms.
• Understanding of data pipeline SDLC processes.
• Strong analytical skills for testing strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Document validation plans and testing strategies.
• Develop automation tests using Python and related tools.
• Log technical issues and serve as a quality advocate.

Skills

Agile development methodologies

Data Lakes knowledge

Python coding expertise

ANSI SQL knowledge

Cloud services understanding

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

Job Summary:

Job Title: Data QA Engineer

Location: Remote (UK)

Who are we?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

Who are you?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

THE TEAM

Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives. We are building a modern data platform to support enterprise data needs. Our mission and yours too should you choose to, is to empower and enable our data community of data engineers, data scientists, analysts, product teams and decision makers to create value.

The Core Data Services team consists of Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Enablement and Operations teams. We are building a highly functional, performant modern enterprise Data Lake while supporting our current data platforms so the focus is on maximizing functionality, creating value and content/data assets, cost optimizations and usability of the data delivery and services and all this is our measure of our success and defines us The Core Data Services Team! We are looking for a Data QA Engineer, You!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Document use-case based validation plans and testing strategies designed to prevent defects
• Maintain comprehensive regression test suites
• Develop automation tests for Core Data Platform services and tools using Python, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, AWS S3 etc.
• Participate in building our internal testing framework
• Influence the service development process towards quality-centric methodologies
• Help develop and maintain quality standards that support the SDLC for data pipelines development to release
• Analyze requirements to understand positive, negative, and edge test scenarios
• Execute functional and regression tests; log all technical issues in JIRA for service enhancements
• Serve as a quality advocate on Data Engineering teams to ensure that Test Driven Development processes are being followed

TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Agile development methodologies using the Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence
• Good understanding of Data Lakes, Data Warehouses
• Software development, coding expertise in the Data Science field using Python/Spark/Scala/R/Java
• Any visualization experience is an advantage
• Experience using ANSI SQL and Spark SQL is key to have
• Working knowledge of any of these : Databricks, Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Hadoop and related stacks
• An understanding of cloud services such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP or Microsoft Azure
• An understanding of streaming (Kafka) and batch based data sources
• An understanding of diverse data sources and data formats (xml, json, yaml, parquet, avro, delta) and respective use cases
• An excellent understanding of the nuances that add complexities around data various data formats, data types, business logic, data pipelines, and data transformation
• Experience using version control systems such as Git and CI/CD workflows and practice

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.