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Opportunity: Lead Bioinformatics Test Engineer -- Cancer Data Aggregator @ GDIT -- Remote, Based in USA
Submitted by Dr. David Pot; posted on Friday, February 11, 2022
DESCRIPTION
GDIT is seeking a Bioinformatics Scientist / Lead QA Test Engineer to support the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
At GDIT, our people are at the center of everything we do. As a Bioinformatics Scientist / Lead QA Test Engineer supporting NCI's Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA), you will work on the indexing of multiple datasets heavily used by cancer researchers and performing testing and quality control on Cancer Data Aggregator systems properly returning the data that is indexed.
You will be establishing the testing processes for both the Extract Transform and Load (ETL) processes that CDA uses to enable the data to be indexed, as well as the actual API calls that end users query the datasets with.
In this role, a typical day will include:
- Following the enhancements that are being put in place at CDA and creating test cases to perform Quality Assessment on the features being developed
- Running end to end, boundary value, regression, and integration testing on the features exposed to the end-users
- Running testing on the ETL processes used to load the data for indexing
- Developing automated methods to perform these test cases
- Identifying specific nuances in the datasets that highlight use cases to illuminate possible issues with the functions of the systems
- Documenting and presenting test completion and progress
- Reporting issues to team-members and confirming they have been resolved after patching
- Helping document new system functionality
- Demonstrating to end users how to use the system
- Using your knowledge bioinformatics knowledge of the data and how it is queried to suggest enhancements to the systems for better performance
REQUIREMENTS
What you will need:
- BS/BA (or equivalent) and eight years experience, preferably in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, or related field
- Experience with bioinformatics datasets, and using Jupyter notebooks and R scripts in a research environment
- Experience in Linux/Unix work environment
- Proficiency in 3 of the following: SQL, bash scripting, R and Python programming
- Knowledge of developing test cases and performing tests for an enterprise system from an end-user perspective
- Must be able to obtain a NIH Public Trust
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud ecosystems – Google and / or AWS
- Experience performing Extract, Transform and Load on molecular biological data and data characterizing that data
- Interacting with Application Programming Interfaces to query and acquire data from datasets
- Cancer research experience
COMPENSATION
What GDIT can offer you:
- 401K with company match
- Challenging work
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Rewards program for high-performing employees
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