Data Analyst Intern (Fall 2020)
Must be available for a full-time paid internship between September and December 2020 in the US.
As a Data Analyst within the Maxis Quality Verification team you will help analyze our operational data to improve our Quality Verification strategies. You are a thoughtful, curious, and analytic person who has a passion for diving into data to solve business problems. Your insights will influence how we build and verify the quality of ours games.
What a Data Analyst does at EA:
- Receive questions from your game team, understand the questions, and determine the data needed to answer them.
- Assemble data from multiple sources, conduct analyses, perform research, designs, documents and implement analytical solutions.
- Present analysis conclusions to the game team in a clear, understandable, and valuable way and tells compelling stories supported by data!
- Take responsibility and ownership for their active projects, always looking for new problems to solve and new concepts to implement.
- Present high-quality reports and findings in Power BI or as presentations.
- Build metrics reporting systems and tracks process improvements across the team.
- Conduct analysis using statistical software, databases, spreadsheets, and reporting tools
- Design, evaluate and monitor key metrics, understanding causes of changes in metrics
- Develop and maintain scripts and queries to import, manipulate, clean, and transform data from different sources
- Build and share live dashboards and reports complete with user documentation
- Perform quality assurance on generated results to ensure accuracy and consistency
The next great Data Analyst needs:
- Data Analysis - Good knowledge of R language, MS Excel, including VBA, PivotTables, and array functions - or other similar tools used for discovering data patterns and correlations through statistical methods.
- Pursuing a degree in one of: Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or Operations Research
- Good math and analytical skills including statistics, simulation, and optimization - understanding of correlation, regression, classification and other statistical methods used to look at the data from different angles for use in prescriptive and predictive models.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
- Have very good database and SQL knowledge.
- Ability to start and maintain partnerships between valuable customers.
EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.