QA Data Analyst & Telemetry Specialist

FocusKPI is looking for aQA Data Analyst & Telemetry Specialistto join one of our clients a high-tech SaaS company.

The client team is seeking a QA Data Analyst & Telemetry Specialist to support their product quality efforts through insightful data analysis robust reporting and close collaboration with engineering teams. This hybrid role combines skills in data analysis log exploration instrumentation design and reporting. Youll investigate product behavior through telemetry create dashboards and written reports to surface quality risks and support the QA team in prioritizing and validating work with data-driven confidence. Youll be the teams go-to person for turning raw signals into clear actionable dashboards ad-hoc investigations and concise written reports that inform leadership and cross-functional teams.

Work Location:Mountain View CA
Duration:12-month contract; Hybrid role (4 days per week onsite)
Pay Range:$75/hr to $85/hr

**No C2C resumes are considered**

Role & 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 theyre 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.

• Minimum of 7 years professional experience with 3-5 years of recent cross-functional experience ideally in large corporation environments or large teams.
• Bachelors 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.

• 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
• Strong communication skills; can adapt output to technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus Points:

• 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.

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010 FocusKPI Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley California with an East Coast office in Boston Massachusetts.

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