LATAM Senior QA Analyst (Data & ETL)

Praxent • International Falls, MN

7d • Remote

About The Position

This role is for a Senior QA Analyst specializing in Data & ETL, supporting clients in the financial services industry. The company, Praxent, focuses on modernizing outdated customer-facing software applications, helping clients achieve returns within weeks. Praxent is a remote-first company with over 170 employees across the United States and Central/South America, emphasizing employee freedom and support. This specific position is categorized as Remote and employees may live in Mexico, Colombia, or El Salvador. The role involves enhancing team capacity, cultivating camaraderie, increasing velocity through automated and API testing, expanding frameworks, mentoring peers, guiding development as a technical SME, and evaluating candidates during interviews. The day-to-day activities include ensuring team understanding of acceptance criteria, tracking progress, limiting QA kickback, and identifying opportunities to increase capacity and velocity. A current employee describes the role as involving sprint planning, delegating technical work, anticipating client value delivery, managing technical debt, reducing unknowns, syncing with delivery leads, and acting as a technical interface for the client.

Requirements

• Demonstrable proficiency with desired technologies and tools
• Genuine fluency writing complex T-SQL from scratch, since ~95% of the work is writing queries to validate data. Includes daily fundamentals like duplicates, joins, primary vs. surrogate keys, query execution order, and reconciliation.
• Experience validating data source-to-target, including transformations, data completeness, and end-to-end flows against specs and mapping documents.
• Solid grasp of test cases, test plans, test strategy, positive/negative testing, performance and load testing, and data completeness testing.
• Comfortable testing SSRS and Power BI output against your own SQL queries.
• Hands-on across SQL Server, data warehouse, SSRS, and Power BI.
• 5-8 years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, leading and executing automated testing for web and mobile applications, and leveraging industry-standard tools to ensure optimal product quality across all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value
• Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact
• Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews.
• May include intensive programs, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Azure data sources
• SSAS cubes
• Version control
• Deep Power BI/Fabric or modeling depth

Responsibilities

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint
• Cultivate Camaraderie: Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout the project team and that these values are reflected within the QA assurance team and department.
• Perform automated testing and API testing for complex applications and scenarios
• Locate and document edge cases by understanding the depth and intricacies of a project
• Assess possible risks and propose modifications to the acceptance criteria
• Demonstrate proficiency at automation, API testing, or accessibility testing principles and solutions
• Enhance the team's capacity by documenting plans to anticipated risks/blockers, advancing best practices, and mentoring peers and more junior team members
• Serve as a technical SME in the sprint, ensuring successful delivery of the sprint commitment by prioritizing testing efforts, enhancing acceptance criteria, etc.
• Conduct recruiting interviews and analyze candidates to ensure successful hiring/contracting
• Present robust testing plans, metrics, and other valuable insight and direction during sprint review meetings
• Propose solutions and improvements to clients that improve our ability to deliver value
• Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria
• Tracking daily progress
• Limit team’s QA kickback
• Deliver stories as assigned
• Find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity

Benefits

• A stable, full-time role
• Full-time employment opportunity in your country
• Paid time off
• Local holidays
• Country-specific perks
• Work/life balance
• Encourage a 40-hour work week
• Support without micromanagement
• Openness, curiosity, and shared ownership
• Time to recharge
• Local perks, global standards
• Bonus pay
• Local protections
• Perks that matter to you
• Invest in your growth (cover cost of online courses, tech conferences, certifications)
• People-first always approach (kindness, respect, empathy)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior