Microsoft BI Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer at NewGlobe

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement - all grounded in learning science - to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Microsoft BI Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with team members and business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for business intelligence projects, including participation in the design and estimation of new software to ensure that testing is not an afterthought
• Create and execute testing plans that include an appropriate combination of manual and automated testing, carefully reporting issues using structured tools and standards
• Go deep on data analysis, ensuring that we’re not satisfied with just ticking the box on the “happy path” defined by developers, but also that unexpected or irregular cases are probed and resolved - to go further than just what is articulated to what is desired (by the business)
• Evangelise a culture of automation and repeatability across business intelligence projects, especially when it comes to testing ETL processes (e.g. data setup, asserting on loading results) and reports (asserting on results); but also generally for the way BI software is deployed
• Participate in the design, rollout, and use of monitoring tools in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure continuous integration of data into warehouses
• Contribute to the effective data governance of business data, including data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of business data
• Provide technical support to diagnose issues raised related to Business Intelligence
• Carry out regression testing when changes are made to fix defects

What You Should Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related degree, with strong academic performance
• At least 4 years of hands on experience in BI testing (ETL, reporting)
• Passion for the power of Business Intelligence to impact core business operations
• A quick mind, a willingness to learn, and a deep-seated curiosity
• Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, especially Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS, and SSRS (current systems); but also interested in learning, along with the team as our data grows exponentially, about Big Data solutions (a few example of technologies we will be using: BigQuery, AirByte, DataFlow, ApacheBEAM, DBT)
• Functional understanding of data warehouse design and dimension modeling (star schemas, snowflakes, etc)
• Working knowledge of ETL processes
• Familiarity with version control; exposure to continuous delivery and automated testing a plus
• Experience or interest in results-driven, lean/agile environments
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced and demanding environment
• Good communication skills

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.