Senior Data Validation & Reporting Analyst

Xinova Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Xinova Group is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support data platforms, reporting solutions and client implementations. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and own data validation, QA and UAT with stakeholders and engineering teams.

You will investigate data sources, mappings and workflows, write SQL, build Excel validation models and ensure accurate reporting outputs across platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst or related role with testing responsibilities.
• Hands-on SQL and strong Excel skills for data validation.
• Understanding of databases, data models, integrations and data movement between systems.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements for developers.
• Hands-on QA/UAT experience, including test case creation and defect validation.
• Experience with data reconciliation, mapping or system migrations and implementations.
• Clear communication with both business users and technical teams.
• Exposure to financial services, asset management, commercial real estate or related workflows.

Responsibilities

• Gather and clarify business requirements, translating them into technical specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Investigate existing applications, data sources, workflows and dependencies to identify requirements and integration risks.
• Define source-to-target data mappings, documenting field definitions and transformation rules.
• Write SQL queries and build Excel-based validation models to reconcile source data against targets and reports.
• Own QA and UAT planning and execution, including test scenarios and defect tracking.
• Validate dashboards, calculated fields and reporting outputs, investigating discrepancies with engineering teams.
• Coordinate with data engineering, application and infrastructure teams to resolve issues.
• Maintain clear documentation, reusable validation templates, mapping guides and implementation checklists.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Requirements gathering

QA/UAT

Data validation

Documentation

Communication

Problem solving

Data reconciliation

Stakeholder management

Data modeling

Jira

Tools

Sigma Computing

Databricks

Snowflake

Jira

Job description

Xinova Group is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support data platforms, reporting solutions and client implementations. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and own data validation, QA and UAT with stakeholders and engineering teams.

You will investigate data sources, mappings and workflows, write SQL, build Excel validation models and ensure accurate reporting outputs across platforms.