FocusKPI, Inc. · 1 day ago
QA Data Analyst & Telemetry Specialist
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$75/hr - $85/hr
7+ years expFocusKPI, Inc. is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics. They are seeking a QA Data Analyst & Telemetry Specialist to support product quality efforts through data analysis, reporting, and collaboration with engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Data Analysis & Log Investigation: Hunt down the right logs, trace product issues across environments, and analyze patterns in system behavior to support QA investigations and test coverage strategy
Instrumentation Partnership: Collaborate with engineers to define, scope, and validate telemetry requirements, ensuring the capture of high-quality signals
Dashboards & Visualization: Design and maintain clear, role-specific dashboards that reflect test results, coverage trends, performance metrics, and release health
Written Reports: Produce structured reports and summaries that combine narrative, visuals, and metrics to tell a complete story about product quality, test outcomes, and production health
Root Cause Support: Assist QA and dev teams with root cause investigations using log data, traces, metrics, and real-world usage patterns
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with QA, Engineering, Product, and Data teams to align on what signals matter and how they’re consumed across tools and stakeholders
Quality Metrics Development: Define and refine KPIs around bug trends, feature coverage, regressions, and release readiness to guide strategic QA direction
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 7 years professional experience, with 3-5 years of recent cross-functional experience, ideally in large corporation environments or large teams. Maximum of 15 years of overall experience
Strong hands-on experience with data analysis (SQL, Python, R, or similar)
Skilled in producing clear visualizations (e.g., Superset, Plotly, Tableau, Looker, Grafana, Power BI)
Able to write concise reports with actionable insights — weekly summaries, defect overviews, quality scorecards, etc
Familiar with log analysis tools (e.g., Sumologic, Splunk, Datadog, Kibana, ElasticSearch)
Comfortable discussing and designing instrumentation/logging with engineers
Familiarity with QA concepts, release validation, and production monitoring
Good Technical Skills: solid technical foundations, data quality management and data visualization, effectively troubleshoot environment setup issues and code debugging scenarios, use LLMs effectively, no use of AI assistants
Good & strong communication skills: can adapt output to technical and non-technical audiences, effective collaboration, clear articulation of technical concepts, structured responses and straight answers, no stuttering, maintain focus
Good problem-solving skills: structured approach, quick thinking, solid reasoning ability, exploratory thinking, and identify solutions independently
Preferred
Bachelor's degree (or higher) in one of the following fields is preferred: Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Statistics or Applied Mathematics, Electrical or Computer Engineering Equivalent practical experience is also welcome — especially in QA, data analysis, SRE, or systems engineering roles
Background in QA, test automation, or release engineering
Experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or event-driven logs
Experience in continuous delivery environments with real-time observability needs
Prior involvement in incident reviews or quality postmortems
Relevant certifications (e.g., Data Analytics, SQL, Tableau, or Observability/Monitoring tools) are a plus
Company
FocusKPI, Inc.
Since our founding in 2010, we have become a premier data science and technology firm specializing in data analytics, AI, and staffing solutions.
11-50 employees
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