Test SME – Data Migration
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract
£600 per day (via Umbrella)
cer Financial are working alongside an international bank who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Test SME to work in the Data Migration Team on a contract.
The responsibilities of the Test SME – Data Migration will include:
- Test Strategy Development: Be part of the Development and documenting a comprehensive test strategy for data migration activities ensuring data accuracy, consistency, integrity and performance.
- Test Planning and Execution: Design, and execution of data migration testing, including functional, system, and acceptance testing.
- Data Management and Quality Assurance: Ensure data quality standards are adhered to during the migration process.
- Reporting and Documentation: Generate detailed reports on testing activities.
- Stakeholder Engagement.
- Data Lineage identification and Data Mapping.
- Data Quality Control, Collection and Cleansing.
- Data Analysis, validation and Interpretation: Utilise tools to perform advanced data analytics, including data blending, analysis, and modelling.
- Problem Solving and Testing.
- Test and validate - Semantic recognition, Data Rules and tool configuration.
- Work with operations teams to approve setup of reference / static data for testing and go-live
- Coordinate with business process stakeholders.
- Post-Migration Review.
- Validate - Data Visualization and Reporting: Use and develop automated reports and data visualizations that provide insights.
- Data Governance and Quality Assurance: Ensure data integrity, data privacy, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Advice and Innovation: Provide advice to teams within the business about tools, data and skills.
- Support Cutover Planning and Runbook Management.
- User Coordination: Work with users on how to use the migrated data.
- Post-Migration Validation: Validate the migrated data in the target system.
The successful Test SME – Data Migration will have:
- Proficiency in using ETL tools – Talend, Informatica, SSIS and with Migration tools – AWS DMS, Azure Data Migration Service.
- Strong SQ skills and familiarity with database technologies – Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
- The ability to identify, manage and maintain Risk (RAID) Logs.
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in data migration, data migration testing and data management preferably within the banking or financial sector.
- Familiarity with banking systems, regulations, and standards.
- Ability to use JIRA or Service Now Project Management tools.
- Experience in Data Migration execution and Testing.
- The use of any Data Migration Test tools – Data gaps ETL Validator, Testing Xperts, Tx tools, Dextrus, Azure Document DB, Beyond compare, Informix, Integrate.io, Excel.