Data Analyst - Quality Assurance

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of healthcare? Do you have a passion for problem solving and a desire to drive meaningful change in the industry? If so, we invite you to join our dynamic Data Warehouse Team as a Data Analyst – Quality Assurance at Quartz, a provider-sponsored health plan dedicated to improving the health and well-being of our communities.

The Data Analyst – Quality Assurance will partner with the business to evaluate data needs and translate into deliverables for internal users and analytics applications as well as external entities including third party data feeds, regulatory, and governmental data needs. This position is responsible for collecting requirements, turning them into technical specifications, monitoring the quality of deliverables, and monitoring and governing the overall quality of the Enterprise Data Warehouse and the processes that feed it.

Benefits:

• Work in new cloud-based data architecture leveraging snowflake and Azure environment
• Desire to train and bring up to speed on technologies including languages like Python

• Option to work in-person, hybrid, or telecommute available
• Starting salary based upon skills and experience: $77,200 - $90,000 plus total rewards package

• Collaborate with business users, external vendors and/or government entities to obtain data requirements for new analytics applications and data feeds or enhancement of existing products.
• Uncover appropriate sources of data for proposed application or data warehousing extension profiling data to ensure fitness for business purpose.
• Coordinate business requirements for the data and provide consultation to internal stakeholders to support their data needs.
• Understand source and target data structures, using standard data tools to review required data and fully profile the data to analyze its ability to meet the business needs.
• Complete impact assessments and ad hoc analyses to ensure that production issues and other reported deficiencies are adequately understood and resolved by updating requirements.
• Translate requirements into technical requirement specifications, appropriately documenting the solution via Report Specifications, Data Flow Diagrams, and Source to Target (STT) documents.
• Map source system data to data warehouse models.
• Work closely with data team to define appropriate logical and physical models to accurately reflect business processes and meet business needs.
• Validate final products meet business requirements and service level agreements.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of education requirement, advanced certifications preferred
• 3+ years of relevant testing experience within a Data Warehouse environment
• Strong communication skills with a passion for bridging the gap between business and technical users
• Knowledge of QA methodology and software development life cycle
• Experience with source to target documentation
• Excellent documentation and written communication skills  
• Domain knowledge (healthcare, EHS, managed care, Medicare, etc)
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL, analytical software, query tools - ability to build and run SQL queries 
• Intermediate knowledge of data warehousing principles including provenance, lineage, etc and applies best practices
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work independently, under pressure, and be adaptable to change
• Must be inquisitive and seek answers to complex questions without being prompted
• Create strong relationships and provide positive experiences for internal partners

This position can work 100% remotely or from our office in Madison, WI in a hybrid or full-time on-site arrangement, if preferred. Hardware and equipment will be provided by the company, but candidates must have access to high-speed, non-satellite Internet to successfully work from home.

We offer an excellent benefit and compensation package, opportunity for career advancement and a professional culture built on the foundations of Respect, Responsibility, Resourcefulness and Relationships.

Quartz values and embraces diversity and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified person with disability.