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Data QA Lead

Job Description

 Job Description:
  • Act as the QA owner for one delivery team: participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective
  • Apply the shift-left, test-driven model: agree acceptance criteria and test design with the developer and business analyst before development starts, so tests lead and code follows
  • Plan and estimate QA effort per work item; commit QA capacity at sprint planning and manage it through the sprint
  • Lead and mentor the QA engineers assigned to the team; review their test designs, queries and defect reports
  • Design and execute data validation, source to target, integration, regression and post-production checks across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, Python ingestion and Databricks pipelines
  • Own the team's quality gate results: confirm accuracy, latency, performance and security gates are met before each environment promotion and give the QA sign-off for release
  • Log, triage and track defects in Azure DevOps; drive resolution with developers and communicate impact to the business analyst and product owner
  • Track and report team level quality metrics: first-pass quality, defect escape rate, automated regression coverage and QA cycle time
  • Coordinate knowledge transfer and shadow coverage during transition, and maintain the team's test assets and runbooks
  • Lead root cause analysis for post-production defects affecting the team's scope and implement preventive test coverage
  • Use AI/LLM-powered tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate test case generation, synthetic data and query review, validating AI-assisted output before use
  • Communicate QA status, risks and release readiness to the Practice Lead and US stakeholders
  • Qualification

    Qualifications: 
  • 6+ years in QA testing, including 3+ years in a data engineering or data warehousing environment and 2+ years leading or coordinating testers
  • Strong SQL for data validation, reconciliation and profiling; working Python for test scripting
  • Hands-on experience testing ETL/ELT pipelines built with tools such as SSIS, dbt, Fivetran or Python-based ingestion
  • Experience with test planning, estimation and risk-based test coverage in agile sprints
  • Experience with defect management and test tracking in Azure DevOps or equivalent
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain data quality issues to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to work independently under minimal supervision and a strong track record of meeting delivery commitments
  • About The Global Business Services

    A dynamic offshore hub based in the Philippines, serving as a vital extension of its parent organization’s operations. As an internal support center, it delivers high-impact services across multiple departments, including technology, compliance, finance, and operations, supporting various lines of business.

    Data QA Lead

    Global Business Services

    BGC, Taguig

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    Salary

    100,000-130,000/month

    Position Level

    Supervisor

    Job Level

    Executive

    Job Type

    Hiring Until

    12/31/2026