Busara

QA Engineer

• The Quality Assurance Analyst will work closely with project teams to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:
• - Monitor and review research data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency across qualitative and quantitative datasets.
• - Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve discrepancies or irregularities in internal and external research data, serving as a quality assurance resource for project teams and leadership.
• - Work closely with project teams to source, clean, structure, and validate datasets to ensure they meet internal data quality standards.
• - Conduct quality assurance reviews of survey instruments, ensuring alignment with research objectives, logical flow, clarity of questions, and methodological rigor.
• - Coordinate QA checks during survey development, including formatting, logic testing, translation review, and liaising with survey programming teams.
• - Support monitoring of data collection processes to ensure adherence to research protocols, ethical standards, and quality benchmarks.
• - Work closely with the Project Operations team and project staff to plan and implement quality assurance processes for field operations and data collection.
• - Conduct data audits, spot checks, and validation processes during fieldwork and data collection phases.
• - Review drafts of client reports, analysis outputs, and research deliverables to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with underlying data.
• - Support Associates and Senior Associates in preparing materials such as drafts of client reports, methodological documentation, research summaries, and presentations.
• - Support multiple large-scale research and advisory projects simultaneously while ensuring quality standards are maintained across deliverables.
• - Identify opportunities to strengthen internal research quality assurance systems and contribute to improving internal QA processes, templates, and documentation.
• - Coordinate project activities related to research quality and data integrity, including timelines for data verification, analysis review, and reporting.
• - Participate in fieldwork and project activities where required to ensure compliance with quality assurance protocols.
• - Ensure coordination with relevant Busara teams including finance, procurement, operations, facilities, and wellness to support smooth implementation of research engagements.
• - Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the project supervisor.