Cognos with QA

We are seeking a detail-oriented QA Analyst to join our Cognos reporting team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for validating data accuracy, ensuring report functionality, and supporting the quality assurance process for both existing and newly developed Cognos reports and dashboards.

Key Responsibilities:

Review and validate Cognos reports and dashboards for data accuracy, formatting, and performance.

Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on business and technical requirements.

Perform regression, functional, and data validation testing on reporting solutions.

Collaborate with Business Analysts and Developers to understand report logic and ensure alignment with requirements.

Identify, document, and track defects; work with the development team to resolve issues.

Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assist business users during validation cycles.

Maintain QA documentation and contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

4 to 6 years of experience in QA roles, preferably in reporting or BI environments.

Strong understanding of data validation, ETL processes, and reporting tools (preferably IBM Cognos).

Experience in writing and executing SQL queries for backend data validation.

Familiarity with test management tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, HP ALM).

Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.

Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.