Data BI Technical Writer – Journeyman

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Conduct testing on data pipelines, warehouse components, dashboards, and reports to ensure alignment with documented requirements and anticipated outcomes.

• Assess the quality, integrity, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data throughout processing and reporting phases.

• Verify transformations, calculations, aggregations, filters, and the accuracy of displayed reporting results.

• Evaluate the performance of pipelines and reports against predefined standards.

• Analyze the usability, navigation, labeling, and clarity of dashboards and reports.

• Develop and maintain testing procedures, scenarios, expected results, and execution logs.

• Record discrepancies with detailed descriptions, reproduction steps, supporting evidence, and impacted components.

• Keep defect logs and facilitate communication with responsible developers and engineers for clarifications.

• Document troubleshooting efforts, diagnostic results, corrective measures, and resolutions.

• Reassess corrected components and note whether identified issues have been addressed.

• Assist with regression testing after changes to pipelines, schemas, warehouses, or reports.

• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, results, defects, and retesting evidence.

• Summarize the progress of testing, outstanding issues, limitations, and readiness for release findings.

• Aid in user acceptance testing and record feedback from stakeholders.

• Maintain well-organized and up-to-date testing and troubleshooting documentation in designated repositories.

• Facilitate technical reviews to ensure documentation accurately reflects findings and implemented corrections.

• Collaborate with data engineers, database staff, BI developers, business analysts, quality assurance personnel, and government stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• A minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in technical communication, English, information systems, or a related field, or an acceptable equivalent.

• Capability to test data pipelines, warehouse components, dashboards, and reports.

• Proficiency in evaluating data quality, integrity, accuracy, performance, and usability.

• Skill in documenting test results, defects, troubleshooting efforts, and resolutions.

• Preferred training in relevant data/BI fundamentals.

• Preferred training in documentation tools.

• Prior experience in supporting testing for data warehouses, ETL processes, dashboards, or operational reporting is preferred.

• Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, data models, metadata, and data flows is preferred.

• Experience in maintaining testing evidence, reproducible defect records, and retesting documentation is preferred.

• Previous support experience for federal or Department of Defense programs is preferred.

• Familiarity with requirements traceability, version control, and document review processes is preferred.

• Experience with SharePoint, Confluence, test management systems, or similar documentation platforms is preferred.

• Strong skills in technical writing, analytical troubleshooting, editing, and stakeholder communication are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Consideration for other available positions requiring comparable skills, education, and experience.